Lyrics
(A cappella)
The queue for the Town Hall Extension on a Tuesday, late November.
I spoke your name, Jude, a prayer I just remembered.
The radiator's hiss and the scent of damp wool,
a kind of serviceable faith to keep the body full.
[Chorus]
And the plaster saints on the high-up cornice
They turn their heads and grant me a different grace.
You make this brutalist slab a holy place.
[Verse 2]
The man behind the safety glass is reading out the rules.
A palimpsest of faces from the Cheetham Hill old schools.
“Form P-60,” he coughed, and never met my eyes.
But I was busy tracing your reflection in the tiles.
[Chorus]
And the plaster saints on the high-up cornice
They turn their heads and grant me a different grace.
You make this brutalist slab a holy place.
[Bridge]
All this scaffolding, holding up the state,
it’s just a temporary frame around my wait for you.
[Outro]
Amen, Jude. Next in line.
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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