Running with the Wolves

Album: All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • Aurora's music is frequently inspired by nature. She told The Sun: "'Running With The Wolves' is about freedom and joining nature again, getting away from phones and radio and all the stuff we keep around us."
  • Aurora wrote the song during the blood moon in 2014. She told The 405: "I just imagined the moon turning all the people around the world into wild animals, running away from all the rules, all the materialism and technology. Just being a part of nature again, running free."
  • The song featured in Apple TV+'s 2020 animated film Wolfwalkers.

Comments: 2

  • Ben Franklin from EarthThe song in the movie Wolfwalkers is a different version, 27 seconds shorter and with different lyrics and different instruments.
  • PinkyRunning with the Wolves was the third song that I listened to from AURORA
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