Blood in the Wine

Blood in the Wine
Song
Artist	AURORA
Album	The Gods We Can Touch
Released	January 21, 2022
Length	3:29 3:30 (Vinyl Version)
Label	Decca Records Glassnote Petroleum Records
Writer(s)	AURORA Askjell Fredrik Svabø
Producer(s)	AURORA Askjell Magnus Skylstad
God/Goddess	Dionysus Bacchus

The Gods We Can Touch standard chronology
Previous	"Artemis"
Next	"This Could Be a Dream"

The Gods We Can Touch alternative chronology
Previous	"Heathens"
Next	"Exhale Inhale"

"Blood in the Wine" (originally titled "The Blood in the Wine") is a song by AURORA from her album The Gods We Can Touch.

Background

Aurora explained the track to Apple Music:

"The symbolism in it is very inspired by religious terms. I get a lot of inspiration from faith because it's so complex. This song is about the whole complexity in this relationship. I think it's important for me that people find their own meaning in this song, but I would love people to feel strengthened by it."

In the book, Aurora wrote the following:

"Why do we always put shame within the natural ways of man? While making the pleasure in hell so tempting... We're all destined to fail this impossible task of resisting all these things that makes us human?"

Lyrics

I was given a heart
Before I was given a mind
A thirst for pleasure and war
A hunger we keep inside
We fell from sky with grace
And life gave us a sweeter taste

You can drink, you can feast
There's beauty in your beast
The flesh in the fruit
And the blood in the wine

Come and feel alive lover
Come and feel the love, like a sinner
Shout it louder
Shout it for the ones who could never say
"I won't feel ashamed, mother"
"Can you break the chains off her"
Shout it louder
Not a sinner, she's a lover

I was given a name
Before I was given blood
Like you were given your faith
Before there was made a god
Young rivers in your hands
And grass burning in promised lands

You can drink, you can feast
There's beauty in your beast
The flesh in the fruit
And the blood in the wine

Come and feel alive lover
Come and feel the love, like a sinner
Shout it louder
Shout it for the ones who could never say
"I won't feel ashamed, mother"
"Can you break the chains off her"
Shout it louder
Not a sinner, she's a lover

Come and feel alive
Come and feel a love
Shout it louder
Shout it for the ones who could never say
"I won't feel ashamed, mother"
"Can you break the chains off her"
Shout it louder
Not a sinner, she's a lover

Come and feel alive lover
Come and feel the love, like a sinner
Shout it louder
Shout it for the ones who could never say
"I won't feel ashamed, mother"
"Can you break the chains off her"
Shout it louder
Not a sinner, she's a lover

Lyrics transcribed by listening.

Scrapped book lyrics

The following lyrics were written down in her book, The Gods We Can Touch.

[?]-it makes [?]
[?] wine. so deep and
[?]
What makes it taste
[?] warm like a fire
[?] never burns.. but
[?]-es comfort
What makes the wine
[?] us. free us
[?]-y do we want to
[?] so fiercely with
[?] in our blood?

[?]-it the blood in the wine
[?] flesh in the fruit
[?] vulnerability in sea
[?]

Trivia

• A slightly different version of this song appeared on alternative tracklist vinyls of The Gods We Can Touch, where it is sometimes listed as "Vinyl Version".
  • Differences in the "Vinyl Version" include the mix of the instruments, most notably drums and bass.
• The song was first discovered on various song repertoires on August 15, 2021.
• The associated god for this song in the Universal Music quiz is Dionysus. Aurora said to Spotify that the god that inspired the song was Bacchus, a Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility.