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This song.... Aura is different. She has come so long, it contains so many emotions, people and events in it. Aura is life.
I wrote this song just a few weeks ago in my last undergrad course at university. The last song I made for the album. I knew there had to be a song that tells our audience where the heck all these songs were going to. It almost feels like a diary entry. I tried to be as authentic and open as possible while writing this song.
If you know me you know I live and breath metaphors because I feel too exposed if I don’t use them. But Aura was a representation of coming to terms with a lot of things in my life; identity, religion, thoughts and the obscurity of future.
Hence, our character’s name is Aura and with this song, she finally releases herself from her own clutches. She learns to love herself before anyone and anything.
Making of this album was an adventure of its own. I remember the feelings and fears we had when we first started. @brownieshoots and I had our own similar and different problems in life.
Coming together to make music was the highlights of our time. Even if nobody listened to the songs we knew they were healing us. That’s all that mattered. And I remember the contentment and the serene feeling I had while making Aura.
Loving yourself is probably the hardest thing in life. Its the last step of Maslow’s hierarchy where you achieve self-actualization. It's learning how to live with your neurosis. It's the shattering of your reflective glass and saying I am the past, future and present me. I am always in the process of me.
The melody came out after a jam session I made with my brother. I was so hyped up and energetic (a really good jam session does that to you lol) I just started doing some chords and started murmuring. I KNEW it was a good song when my bro asked me what song I was playing. I think it’s only appropriate that people that helped me throughout anything and held me to music and life have one of the biggest places in this song. I am grateful for everything. We are grateful to say that this album rocks! :)

lyrics

Do you really want me to let go
All the pent up words I stored
We go back centuries to see what's in our thoughts

If we were to show when we feel a lot
We'd look up and give laughs enough
We don't speak up but we talk a lot

Maybe, It's just a little too much
To be burdened with life

If you were to wrap me up again
With another soul, I seem to desire
Falling down my cheek there's a tear
Calling me out on my fears

I cut my bangs in the middle of the night
Don't remember where was time
3 maybe 4, perhaps a little more

If you were to bring me up again
No doubt I'd be glory with all the flaws in my story

Follow through
What's art without happy mistakes anyway?

If you were to wrap me up again
With my favorite song to play
I would taste my bittersweet soul and
Breath in the colors of my aura

If you were to wrap me up again
With my favorite song to play
I would taste my bittersweet soul and
Breath in the colors of my

If you were to wrap me up again
With my favorite song to play
I would taste my bittersweet soul and
Breath in the colors of my

If you were to wrap me up again
With my favorite song to play
I would taste my bittersweet soul and
Breath in the colors of my aura

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from Distortion & Motion, released June 10, 2019
Thank you to the chirping birds of METU for making my early morning classes bearable and enabled me to record them :)

Music & Lyrics by Nilgün Gül Özer
Produced by Nilgün Gül Özer
Song Artwork by Hande Nur Akyıldız

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I like cats and can't live without my guitars and pencils. That's basically it.
Oh and i make music.

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