Hans Zimmer - Aurora (Live / Includes Introduction) lyrics

Let me tell you one last story
About 12 years ago, maybe 13
Chris Nolan phoned me and asked me if I wanted to do a Batman movie
Of course I wanted to do a Batman movie
And more than that I wanted to work with Chris Nolan

But I had a problem I didn't know how to be Batman and split my personality
And become the suave and elegant Bruce Wayne
So Chris suggested that I call my friend James Newton Howard
Who is one of the most brillant, elegant and wonderful composers
And off we went to London with our friend Mel Wesson
The four of us together came up with Batman Begins
We never thought about a sequence or anything like this

A few years went by and one day Chris turned up in my studio
And he start telling me the story of the Joker
And he told me a story of anarchy
He told me a story of a punk attitude to music and to acting
And I said to him: Who is going to be the actor in this
Who is going to play this Joker?
And he said to me: Heath Ledger
And Heath gave this incredible performancer, totally fearless
Totally on the edge, totally out there

Everyday when we saw it daily it, we were just like "amazing"
Just before he finished the movie
We found out that our Heath had died
And I thought I should tone the music down
I thought it was all too much
And I suddently realised
That the only way to really show respect to this performance
To give respect to the man, was to keep the edges in it
The razor blades, the steel, the broken glass
And a few years went by and Chris said:
Come on, we've got to finish the trilogy
We owe it to ourselfes
And so, Dark Knight Rises came about

Somehow we found the playfulnest again
The experimentation, all that stuff was all back and
We did the movie, we finished it, we went to New York, we had an amazing premier

Next morning we got on a plane and we arrived at dawn in London
And I went to my apartament
And a journalist was on the phone and he said to me:
What did I felt about the mass shooting while they were showing our movie
In the small town in Colorado called Aurora?

And I hadn't heard of it and I said: Devastated
The first word that popped into my head
And I realised everybody was going to use that word
And I don't use words
Words aren't the way I express myself
And all day I was thinking about the victims and their families
And the loneliess they must have experienced

So that night I phoned the choir and I said: Can we do something?
Can we do a piece of music with no words
That should feel like we're streching our arms out
All the way across the Atlantic to the small town in Colorado?
And let them not feel alone any more
Let them know we're thinking of them
Let them know we're feeling for their hearts

And the world hasn't gotten any better
And tonight we're here in Prague
And we are stretching our arms out
And we're playing and singing from our hearts for you

Ladies and gentlemen
This is Aurora