“Heathens” is track seven and the fourth single released from AURORA’s 3rd studio album, The Gods We Can Touch.

In an interview with NME, AURORA stated that the song was about how

[…] Eve took a bite of a forbidden apple hanging from the tree of evil and good. In her act of doing so, she granted humans free will; I just think that was very beautiful, and I wanted to honor her and women like her, who little by little granted us freedom in this world.