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Little Bit Delicate

from Bee Without Wings by Elin Grace

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'Little Bit Delicate' is the opening track on my debut EP, 'Bee Without Wings', which was released on the 23rd of September 2022. It's a dramatic piano ballad with lyrics focusing on my struggle with reconciling vulnerability and strength as a young woman with mental health issues. I wrote the song when I was around 15 or 16, but have always come back to it, and enjoyed almost reimagining the song by adding the layers of vocal harmony, and the cello part that enters in the bridge. I eventually decided it was the perfect opener for 'Bee Without Wings' as it introduces the themes of femininity and mental health which come up throughout the whole EP. I hope you love it!

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Lyrics

My town’s scary when evening turns to night
When I’m far from home I’m wary, even in daylight
And I don’t like it when people are too brave
I bite my hangnails when I’m nervous, and I always behave

Stop right there, I’ve a fragile sticker on my collarbone
Today I learned
Stop right there, I’ve got bruises from words and I’m ticklish
Would you like to learn?
Don’t break me, I wanna be whole again
Don’t melt me, I’m not prepared
Self-indulgent, maybe materialistic
I’ll look at my hands and say “I’m a little bit delicate”

Ill to hell with humour, stupidity not wit
And I wish to death I had a say in deciding my next fit
See if I really wanted to be newer, bluer
I’d find a stretch of untouched land, growing crops like me not you

Stop right there, I’ve a fragile sticker on my collarbone
Today I learned
Stop right there, I’ve got bruises from words and I’m ticklish
Would you like to learn?
Don’t break me, I wanna be whole again
Don’t melt me, I’m not prepared
Self-indulgent, maybe materialistic
I’ll look at my hands and say “I’m a little bit delicate”

Tap me on the shoulder and you might just knock me over
And now I’ve dropped all my folders ‘cause you tapped me on the shoulder
I’m a typical girl, marketing ploy, I’m childish, it’s so stylish
They are all ashamed of me, grew up to what I’m supposed to be

(Please) Stop right there, I’ve a fragile sticker on my collarbone
Today I learned
Stop right there, I’ve got bruises from words and I’m ticklish
Would you like to learn?
Don’t break me, I wanna be whole again
Don’t melt me, I’m not prepared
Self-indulgent, maybe materialistic
I’ll look at my hands and say “I’m a little bit delicate”

credits

from Bee Without Wings, released September 23, 2022
Written and performed by Elin Grace
Sound engineering by Oscar Featherstone
Produced by Oscar Featherstone and Elin Grace
Mixed by Tchad Blake
Photography and graphic design by Sam Stevens

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Elin Grace is a 19 year old independent singer-songwriter from rural mid Wales, whose debut EP, ‘Bee Without Wings’, blends quirky piano ballads and jazz influenced indie-pop with deft vocal harmonies, and sweetly sophisticated melodic arrangements.

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