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AURORA

Starvation

Release date: 1st May 2025

From What Happened To The Heart? (Deluxe)
Track 13
3:28
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About This Track

'Starvation' opens with a catalogue of absence: the touch of skin, the rush of inner beauty, the simple comfort of human contact. Aurora moves quickly into the song's central paradox, asking why we must suffer before we can see clearly, why we reach for harm when what we truly want is to feel alive. The track builds around this hunger, both literal and metaphorical, a soul emptied by disconnection and the slow erosion of meaning in an increasingly virtual world. The song's architecture mirrors its subject. Verses pile questions upon questions, each one sharpening the ache, whilst the chorus returns again and again to that single word: starving. Aurora's voice carries a kind of exhausted clarity, neither pleading nor resigned, simply stating the condition. By the final repetition, the lyrics have narrowed to their essence: we are decorated bones, and the souls are starving. It is a bleak image, but one delivered with precision rather than despair.

"Starvation" is a track by AURORA, from the album What Happened To The Heart? (Deluxe), released 1st May 2025. The track is 3:28 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about AURORA.

About the Artist

AURORA

AURORA

Lyrics

Starvation

I miss the touch
Of human hands on my skin
Miss the rush
Of beauty coming from within
Do I need to be torn
Just to see who will care?
I sleep on the floor
Dreaming my life away

Why do we have to die
For us to see the light?
And we hunger for love
Why do we touch the knife
When we long to feel alive?
And we hunger for love
And my soul is starving

Come on over, take a bite
Of the last apple here on Earth
Will the virtual mind
Become stronger than mine?
And when my ego dies
Will I stay here forever?
When the web crashes down
Will my life be better?

Why do we have to die
For us to see the light?
And we hunger for love
And my soul is starving
Why do we touch the knife
When we long to feel alive?
And we hunger for love
And my soul is starvin'

Break me, break me
Chasing the enemy
Got a deal with the devil
But I got the stamina
Higher than anything
I've ever seen or been
Right now, everything
Everything's empty

Starving, craving
Chasing the remedy
I got used to the torture
But no one deserves to be alone
Break me, break me
Chasing the enemy
And my soul is hurting
But I got the stamina

(Why do we have to die)
(For us to see the light?)
(We are decorated bones)
(And the souls are starving)
(Why do we have to die)
(For us to see the light?)
(We are decorated bones)
(And the souls are starving)

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Track details

From What Happened To The Heart? (Deluxe)

3:282025
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Album
What Happened To The Heart? (Deluxe)
What Happened To The Heart? (Deluxe)
AURORA
2nd May 2025
Track number
13
Release year
2025
  1. 1Echo Of My Shadow
    4:05
  2. 2To Be Alright
    4:06
  3. 3Your Blood
    4:07
  4. 4The Conflict Of The Mind
    4:15

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  • —Some Type Of Skin (ft. ATARASHII GAKKO!)
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  • —Dreams (ft. Nicole Zignago)
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    AURORA, Michelle Leonard, Nicolas Rebscher
    Producer
    AURORA, Nicolas Rebscher
    Bass
    Nicolas Rebscher
    Guitar
    Nicolas Rebscher
    Keyboards
    AURORA, Nicolas Rebscher
    Vocals
    AURORA, Michelle Leonard
    Background Vocals
    Michelle Leonard
    Mastering Engineer
    Alex Wharton
    Mixing Engineer
    Mitch McCarthy
    Percussion
    AURORA, Nicolas Rebscher
    Programmer
    Michelle Leonard, Nicolas Rebscher
    Recording Engineer
    Chris Greatti, Nicolas Rebscher
    Synthesizer
    Michelle Leonard
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