Lyrics
The receipt for the cobalt suit is tucked in your old Breviary,
a bookmark left at Pentecost, a strange new way to start.
It’s Tuesday, quarter past three, October 2023.
The mill is quiet now, just how you said this part would be.
[Chorus]
I’m dead reckoning from your last known position,
with a dandy's ambition and a factory superstition.
[Verse 2]
Your hands always smelled of swarfega and iron filings.
“That horn,” you said, “won't keep the bailiffs from the door.”
I was trying to catch a different trade wind, I suppose,
becamed in the kitchen with the windows closed.
[Bridge]
Now I’m tacking through the ginnels by the Irwell at night,
navigating by the sodium light, trying to keep this vessel upright.
[Outro]
The mill is quiet now.
Still dead reckoning.
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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