Lyrics
The millstone grit behind the Co-op on Hazelbottom Road.
We scratched our names in with a tuppence, just to feel the cold.
A sedimentary promise, a childhood pressed in slate,
Before the pressure changed you to a mineral I hate.
[Chorus]
And oh, the hairline fracture nobody saw coming.
Just a slow erosion, a quiet kind of numbing.
[Verse 2]
I saw your mother Tuesday, by the tram stop in the rain.
She spoke about the weather, she didn't speak your name.
You’re living south of Watford now, I see it on my phone,
Your face a strata chart of someone I used to own.
[Chorus]
And oh, the hairline fracture nobody saw coming.
Just a slow erosion, a quiet kind of numbing.
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Remember on the towpath? You said, “It's not your place.”
Your voice was glacial moraine, scraping down your face.
[Chorus]
And oh, the hairline fracture, the one we saw coming.
Just a slow erosion, a quiet kind of numbing.
[Outro]
The slow erosion. The quiet kind of...
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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