Lyrics
The box from Slaters had a tear in the corner
Where your father’s thumb, still grey with swarf, had pried.
He saw the cobalt, a shock of pigment,
A brand new skyline where a factory died.
He placed his teacup down without a sound.
[Chorus]
This is the long quiet after the door clicks. (The long quiet)
This is the bitter taste of being right. (The taste of being right)
[Verse 2]
The air goes thin, smells of boiled potatoes,
And the silence has a shape, a brutalist design.
“On co on sobie myśli?” a whisper from the kitchen,
The sound of his key in the lock, a final, turning line.
[Chorus]
This is the long quiet after the door clicks. (The long quiet)
This is the bitter taste of being right. (The taste of being right)
[Bridge]
A rental scaffolding to hold a body upright,
You see a stranger in the window's dark reflection,
Dressed for a party that will not happen tonight.
[Outro]
The long quiet.
(And the colour starts to burn)
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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