Lyrics
The 3 a.m. Metrolink rattles the cornice dust from the sill.
I built you a cathedral in my phone, a blueprint standing still.
Every arch and buttress, every single pane of stained-glass text,
Just to watch my thumb become the architect of what comes next.
[Chorus]
And oh, the thumbprint ballet on the cold glass screen,
A tiny, frantic demolition of the might-have-been.
Backspace, backspace, backspace, 'til the page is clean,
Just a single blinking cursor where a life should be.
[Verse 2]
My father’s silence was a language I could understand,
This glowing rectangle feels heavier than a hammer in my hand.
Isherwood’s watching from the corner with his one good plastic eye,
Heard you say, “Your scaffolding just scrapes against a borrowed sky.”
[Bridge]
The characters vanish, a Polish lullaby I can’t quite place,
Leaving nothing but the ghost-glare of the screen upon my face.
[Outro]
I think I'll just send 'U up?'
No. Delete.
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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