- published: 27 Jan 2011
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Lykke Li (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlʏ.ˈkɛ ˈliː]; born Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, 18 March 1986) is a Swedish indie pop singer, songwriter and fashion model. Her music often blends elements of indie pop, alternative, and electronic; instruments in her songs include violins, synthesisers, tambourines, trumpets, saxophones, cellos, and African drums. Li possesses the vocal range of a soprano. Her debut album, Youth Novels, was released in 2008, her second album, Wounded Rhymes, was released in 2011, and her most recent album, I Never Learn, was released in 2014.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson was born in Ystad, Skåne; her mother is a photographer and her father, a musician, is a member of Dag Vag. The family moved to Stockholm when Zachrisson was a toddler and when she was six moved to a mountaintop in Portugal where they lived for five years. The family also spent time in Lisbon and Morocco, and winters in Nepal and India. She moved to the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York for three months when she was 19. She returned when she was 21 to record her album.
Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers (Director: Tarik Saleh)
Lykke Li - Gunshot (Official Video)
Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix)
Lykke Li - I Never Learn - Full Album
Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked
Lykke Li - Little Bit
Lykke Li - Until We Bleed
Lykke Li - 'Sadness Is a Blessing' (Director Tarik Saleh)
Lykke Li - Possibility (Video)
Lykke Li - Get Some
I sleep with windows open
I sleep with eyes wide
In case you would come walking
In case you change your mind
But don't strain yourself for me
Don't break yourself for me
Don't lose your selfish ways for me
I keep a leash around you
And I keep it nice and tight
In case you would go walking
Over forbidden lines
But don't go all soft on me
Don't come across for me
Don't lose your selfish ways over me
Un, deux, trois
Quatre, cinq, six
A hundred times around
You keep on flocking out
You keep me wanting more
Un, deux, trois
Quatre, cinq, six
A hundred times is fine
For you I go all blind
Oh my, where is my mind?
I keep my window open
I keep it open wide
So keep me, keep it open