Lyrics
The Fujifilm machine hummed chemical-sweet
Behind the counter at 'Minute Mend' on Market Street.
August '97, the heat stuck to the glass,
A roll of twenty-four shows a life moving too fast.
A blurry thumb, a first tooth, a trip to Rhyl,
The scaffolding up on a house in Cheetham Hill.
[Chorus]
Another life in an emulsion ghost,
The perfect minute I wanted the most.
A glossy 6-by-4, a story half-told,
Yellowing now, and getting cold.
[Verse 2]
A lad in a cobalt suit, too big at the sleeves,
A girl in the Northern Quarter kicking through leaves.
Heard a woman whisper, "Just bin that one, please,"
Where a hand on a shoulder is now a disease.
I kept the bad ones, the over-exposed,
The architectural plans for a heart foreclosed.
[Chorus]
Another life in an emulsion ghost,
The perfect minute I wanted the most.
A glossy 6-by-4, a story half-told,
Yellowing now, and getting cold.
[Bridge]
The tang of the fixer is still in my clothes,
I tell the story to Isherwood, I suppose.
He says my own negatives are looking thin,
"Not much light got in."
[Outro]
A christening gown, a blurry thumb...
The sunburn to come.
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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