The Secret Garden
"It was always about finding this magical place in this garden…”
This was made as a soundtrack to Marc Munden‘s film of the same title:
“I actually wrote it quite a long time ago, I was quite a little bean back then. I just always felt like this song had quite an imaginative soul. I was a very imaginative child and wrote this song after reading the book The Secret Garden for the first time." (^65.1)
The Aurora Aksnes Wiki on Fandom have probably right in their assumptions about this beeing a song Aurora referred to in a Facebook Livestream back in 2016 (^65.2):
"I have a song called "The Strange Paper Garden" which is about a garden. That I was walking, like, in my dreams and I found a garden that was made of only flowers made of paper. And they were all white, which is quite boring. And so my mission is to paint all those flowers. It's about how much you can affect your surroundings if you paint a bit of color." (65.3)
Then, when she was asked about the song iafter its release, she said: "When they asked me to make a song for the movie remake, I was so happy and tried to pitch them this old song. It was so meant to be.” (^65.1)
17th of December 2020 Aurora performed this live under her Japan Special Livestream Show. As far as I know, this is the only time this song have been played live (^65.4) - please correct me of I'm wrong.
Some final words from Aurora:
"It was always about finding this magical place in this garden, which can also symbolize shelter. The world can be quite harsh and difficult, especially nowadays. It can feel darker than it is. It’s about this magical garden where you’re allowed to grow and nothing is trying to prevent you from just existing and breathing and being healthy.” (^65.5)
Sources
65.1 - Chaospin - AURORA Says “I might come and visit your dreams”
65.2 - Aurora Aksnes Wiki on Fandom
65.3 - Aurora - Facebook live stream, 5th of April 2016.
65.4 - Aurora, Japan Special Livestream Show
65.5 NME Magazine - "AURORA debuts ‘The Secret Garden’ and tells us about new album progress"