Lyrics
You’re standing by the Metrolink stop on Corporation Street again.
He's late, same as always, and the air tastes of ozone and coming rain.
You draw a floor plan on a steamed-up window pane,
A room for him, a room for you, a perfect, paper-thin domain.
[Pre-Chorus]
And you feel the old pull, that familiar structural ache,
For every promise that you kept, another you would break.
[Chorus]
So this is the design, then? A beautiful mistake?
Two boys with a blueprint for a city we can’t make.
[Verse 2]
It's August 2008, you're sharing Vimto on a factory roof.
The rust flakes from the cornice, offering its silent, iron proof.
You called yourselves the architects of all this derelict youth,
Two kings of nothing, spitting out the bitter, gorgeous truth.
[Pre-Chorus]
And now his hand is on your arm, a gesture you can't place,
That old defiance rising in the lines around his face.
[Chorus]
So this is the design, then? A beautiful mistake?
Two boys with a blueprint for a city we can’t make.
[Bridge]
He says, "You still build scaffolding around a wound that's healed."
And all the things you meant to say remain perfectly concealed.
[Outro]
The tram pulls in with a god-awful shriek.
The fenestration's cracked.
About David Bowery
David Bowery was born David Kowalczyk in a Polish-speaking household in North Manchester. At 22, he spent his life savings on a vintage saxophone and a cobalt blue suit, an act of artistic defiance that led to a five-year silence from his factory-worker father. He adopted the name 'Bowery' and began writing theatrical, sax-heavy art-rock in his small flat in a converted mill, where he lives with…
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