Lyrics
We remember the orange, the particular rust-coloured stain
It left on the net curtains in the houses down Smedley Lane.
The specific hum it made over the damp-brick ginnels,
a blueprint for a feeling we didn't have the language for then.
[Chorus]
We were the sodium kids
Underneath the arches, on the grids.
Never said we loved it, but we did.
[Verse 2]
We learned to kiss in that amber, a fumbling and graceless art,
Just after the last Metrolink shuddered and pulled apart.
"Lights off by ten," they said, with a voice through the floorboards.
But that glow was our own private, chemical accord.
[Chorus]
We were the sodium kids
Underneath the arches, on the grids.
Never said we loved it, but we did.
[Bridge]
That light was the scaffolding on the life we were building inside,
A temporary structure with absolutely nowhere to hide.
[Melodica Solo]
[Chorus]
We were the sodium kids!
Underneath the arches, on the grids!
Never said we loved it, but we did!
[Outro]
We never said we loved it.
But we did.
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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