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“It’s very hard for me. I don’t see the I always think, ‘At least it’s not

meaning in numbers,” she admitted. “I ‘Conqueror’’ – then I would probably
don’t have the possibility to have died of pure unhappiness.”

understand what they mean in terms of
success. I don’t get a rush out them – I She added: “I like the song more now,

wish I did. It’s a very hard question for but haven’t played it live for five years.
me to answer without seeming I stopped after 2016 and said, ‘I’m

ungrateful, because I am very never going to play this again – ever!’
honoured that people have let Back then with all the seriousness in

‘Runaway’ into their hearts. the music, I was like, ‘I can’t write
about love, stupid’. Now I’ve embraced

“The world is going through a lot right it.

now with COVID, and it’s clear that in
some countries they needed a song like
‘Runaway’. I’m very happy that the

song can be a friend to those who need

it, because it has been a friend for me
for all these years since I wrote it when

I was 11.”

AURORA did, however, admit that she
was relieved that ‘Runaway’ was the

song that caught the world’s attention,
and not her early single ‘Conqueror’ –

a song which she publicly disowned in
the documentary Once Aurora for its

overly pop leanings.

“It’s very funny that you say so,
because I have thought about this so

often,” she told NME. “When I can’t

grasp that I should be excited about it,