Lyrics
The Mustard Tree on Tib Street, a Tuesday in late March.
The Harris Tweed cost four quid on a handwritten card.
Its pockets smelled of Embassy Regals and damp wool.
I found the cleaner's ticket, folded, legible and cool.
[Chorus]
And the name on the slip isn't mine,
but the Altrincham Double fits fine.
A borrowed life, a threadbare lie,
under a cheap promotional sky.
[Verse 2]
The Number 8 bus squealed to a halt on Shudehill.
I walked inside, the chemical steam was thick and still.
Behind the counter, a woman looked up from her magazine.
She said, "Been a while, Mr. Jones," and the whole scene felt clean.
[Chorus]
And the name on the slip isn't mine,
but the Altrincham Double fits fine.
A borrowed life, a threadbare lie,
under a cheap promotional sky.
[Bridge]
This borrowed wool, a kind of scaffolding,
holding up a shape I'm barely scaffolding.
A new facade for the same old empty space.
I saw his ghost in my own reflected face.
[Outro]
My father would be proud of Mr. Jones.
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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