Lyrics
That demo on the USB stick from your kitchen drawer
Still smells of cheap tobacco and the damp Ardwick floor.
You drew the plans for it in chalk across the cracked linoleum,
A two-chord hymn for the bricked-up Manchester & Salford opium.
[Chorus]
(Second Vocalist)
We built a palace out of noise,
A blueprint for the flood.
[Verse 2]
The scaffolding we borrowed from that site on Oldham Road
Held up the broken microphone against the coming cold.
You said my voice was the sound of rust on a canal gate hinge,
And we’d stay here forever on the city's frayed-out fringe.
[Chorus]
(Second Vocalist)
We built a palace out of noise,
A blueprint for the flood.
[Bridge]
“It sounds like nothing, David,” you said one Tuesday night.
The cobalt suit was hanging in the pale sodium light.
[Outro]
Just the silent hum now.
A quiet demolition.
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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