Finally! We have now covered all of her songs from the first album, including most of the songs she performed in her first year. The forward motion now is the era towards the surprise EP "Infections Of A Different Kind - Step 1"
As you may know, Aurora have never performed this one live, although she has proclaimed it to be one of her favorites - and that she probably would go more complex in the future (^30.1)
As some of us may suspect, her first album was a lot of "give and take" for Aurora. Some of the songs was probably made more mainstream and commercial than that suited her taste, still she have proven herself to be quite strong in her will, and that she have a mind of her own when it comes to the sound of her music:
“I guess in the beginning of a career, you have to compromise a bit because these people are putting a lot of effort and time and money into my project and of course having more understandable songs are easier to like. It makes it more possible to be successful which is not my job to care about, but people around me care about it which is important. But I know that the more freedom I have to do what I want and these people are not against me of course, but we have different minds.” (^30.2)
'Wisdom Cries' is a rather strange and different sounding song from Aurora (in my opinion). Still, when we go into the lyrics and the back story of this one, we find that she early started to take the steps to use her music to "heal the world":
"It’s about… Humans and the world. We have spent so many years, millions of years collecting wisdom and learning about each other, respect, knowledge and all of the things we should know. Then I feel like if Wisdom was a person, maybe, he/she’d look down upon us and see all the things we do towards the planet, the animals, the women, the men and the children… I think Wisdom would cry because we spend like a second tearing down what we have spent millions of years becoming, if that makes sense. And it’s… sad" (^30.1)
Dancer Lily Van Nostrand
Sources
30 - Dancer Lily Van Nostrand - Wisdom Cries - Center Dance Studio 2017
30.1 - Aurora Daily - Interview
30.2 - Earmilk - Interview with Aurora
30 - Aurora banner by 'Stardust' on Pinterest