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Bee Suits

by LIJO

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With Bee Suits, LIJO explores the themes of identity and validation in a song that shifts from sounding eerie and held back to lighthearted and open. Capturing these reoccurring topics in a track more poppy than she has released so far, LIJO shows once more how her music is genre fluid; although she never loses sight of her signature innovative melodies and her literate, colourful approach to lyrics.

And that’s exactly how she wants it to be. Zooming in on her previous releases, almost all of them touch the same subject of image one way or the other; musically, however, LIJO has wandered from gnarling beats and synths (I Want Out) to close to a cappella vocal harmonies (Spell) and everything in between.

Being defined, by herself or by others, confuses her, she says - and that is the reason for the gap in new releases. “To think about yourself like that - constantly defining and redefining, catching in words a momentary state and then trying to live up to that description, because that is the summary I worked so hard to find so that is what I gotta stick to now - that is what numbed me. And I had to take some time to let go of all of it to be able to pick up again.”

lyrics

Despair doesn’t suit me well and neither does the urge to prove you wrong
Here I go again, I lose myself a little bit to feel some warmth
You show up in the dark and say my eyes reveal the secrets that I kept
I watch how you unfold a history I didn’t know I had

And I, I, I

I bite my tongue and I bite my tongue
And I walk a tightrope high above the city
I look down and the people buy flowers and drinks
I look down and the people wear bee suits and sting
I look down and the people in corners are fading
I look down and the people look down
No one ever looks up

And you can tell it to the universe or to the bedroom wall that isn’t yours
You can only build my image from the souvenirs you’re hiding in your drawers
I’m a piece of art, to your delight, I’m breathing boredom, breathing dust
And I don’t care to win but I’m confused now who of us has truly lost

But I bite my tongue and I bite my tongue
And I walk a tightrope high above the city
I look down and the people buy flowers and drinks
I look down and the people wear bee suits and sting
I look down and the people in corners are fading
I look down and the people look down
No one ever looks up

Stripping naked isn’t opening up
Getting lonely isn’t sobering up
Curling your lips isn’t showing love
It isn’t showing, love

And I, I, I

I bite my tongue and I bite my tongue
And I walk a tightrope high above the city
I look down and the people buy flowers and drinks
I look down and the people wear bee suits and sting
I look down and the people in corners are fading
I look down and the people look down
No one ever looks up

credits

released March 31, 2023
written by LIJO
produced by Erwin Tuijl
mix/master by Wessel Oltheten
additional drums: Nils van der Slikke

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LIJO Utrecht, Netherlands

LIJO mirrors the weirdness of human behaviour in music.

“There’s an element of Kate Bush and PJ Harvey to it - that oddball female solo artist quality that’s rare to find these days.” - Thnksfrthrvw (UK)

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