Lyrics
The last frost on the Smedley Lane allotment grounds your breath.
My dziadek’s spade is cold in your hands, a quiet test.
The air smells of damp earth and the promise of rain.
We haven't spoken since that northbound train.
[Chorus]
Are we testing the soil, or just turning it over?
Drawing a line in the dirt, then pulling me closer.
[Verse 2]
"First one to leave this town wins," you said under the pylon hum.
I pruned that memory back for years, 'til the feeling went numb.
Companion planting, you and I, fighting for the same light.
Now your shadow falls across me in the fading afternoon light.
[Chorus]
Are we testing the soil, or just turning it over?
Drawing a line in the dirt, then pulling me closer.
[Bridge]
(Beat switches; all instruments drop out except for a single clean-tone guitar and close-mic vocal)
This wasn't an accident, this patch of common ground.
I kept our friendship dormant, waiting for the sound
Of you saying my name—the real one—in this town.
[Outro]
(Full band explodes back in, cinematic and swelling)
The first shoots are breaking the surface now.
Don't walk away.
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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