Lyrics
At 4:11 AM, the porter at The Midland
Traces the hairline fracture on a marble hand.
The last tram groans on Mosley Street, a lonely sound,
He sweeps the dust of someone else's night from off the ground.
[Chorus]
The blueprints show a different man,
But the night just turns the page again.
[Verse 2]
A cobalt suit hangs in his locker, zipper frayed.
"A foolish choice," his father's voice, a debt he never paid.
The moon gets caught in the scaffolding cage
On the new-build glass across the way.
[Chorus]
The blueprints show a different man,
But the night just turns the page again.
[Bridge]
Key-turn.
Lift-hum.
Street-cleaner's broom.
Comes the sun.
[Outro]
At 4:12 AM, the lobby's quiet,
And Isherwood is waiting for the light.
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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