Charity shop wedding dress

The actual charity shop wedding dress.

"Charity shop wedding dress" is a song by The Gliding Faces. Inspired by an instagram post depicting a wedding dress in a charity shop window in Tonbridge, Kent, Dan wrote and produced the song, spinning a story that plays out over about twenty years.

Lyrics

A girl stands at the window
 Nose pressed against the glass
 She wants the dancing ballerina
 But she's too scared to ask
 
 The shop of wonders
 Of relics gone by
 Never really knowing what will
 Catch her eye
 The girl walks in to the
 Smell of the wet
 Of the place people bring things
 To forget
 
 It's dim and dusty
 A tomb for our time
 Some of the artefacts
 Covered in grime
 In the window the dancer
 Jewellery box-bound
 Slowly revolving and
 Only a pound
 
 Make the purchase
 And get out of here
 "Would you like a bag
 For that, dear?"
 She held the object on which
 Her heart was set
 From the place people bring things
 To forget
 
 Now the years pass so quickly that
 A wedding dress hangs where
 A ballerina sat
 There was no break-up
 No bitter scorn
 The wedding dress label says
 "Never been worn"
 
 Charity shop wedding dress
 Charity shop wedding dress
 
 Charity shop wedding dress
 Charity shop wedding dress

Versions

• Appears on Dark matters.

Personnel

• Written, produced and performed by Daniel Bailey-Graham and Max Herring.