MADRA SALACH | I was just a boy | BKS Festival | 06-13-2026

Little hands with blisters kept my perched so still in your upstairs bedroom on your windowsill I thought I was dreaming I was wide awake you were all I had, love ah for heaven’s sake I was just a boy then I was just a boy then I was just a boy then I was just a boy then by the canal water I was not myself when we rose to leave, babe you were someone else so you took my hand led me to the quays I was off my head, and you were oft displeased See, I was just a boy thеn I was just a boy then I was just a boy then I was just a boy then And it wasn’t hеaven and I wasn’t here I was so unwell then it was so unfair and I tried to tell you and you looked straight through ah, you nearly killed me it’s as if you knew that I was just a boy then I was just a boy then I was just a boy then I was just a boy then