On Silvertown Waythe cranes stand high
Quiet and gray against the still of the sky
They won t quit and lay down though the action has died
They watch the new game in town on the Blackwall side
From the poisinous drains a vision appears
New circle of cranesa new reason to be here
A big silver dome rising up into the dawn
Above the church and the homes were all the silver is gone
If I d a bucket of goldwhat would I do
I d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
Going down Silvertown
Down in Silverdown
Going down Silvertown
Down in Silverdown
A silver dawn steals over the docks
A truck with no weels up on cinderblocks
Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum
Scrap metal schemes are rusted over and done
If I d a bucket of goldsilver would do
I d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
Going down Silvertown
Down in Silverdown
Going down Silvertown
Down in Silverdown
When you re standing on thin and dangerous ice
You can knock and walk in for citizens advice
They ll tell you the where you can turnwhere you can go
There s nothing they can tell me I don t already know
If I d a bucket of goldsilver would do
I d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
Going down Silvertown
Down in Silverdown
Going down Silvertown
Down in Silverdown
From the Caning Town train I see a billboard high
There s a big silverplane raising up into the sky
And I can make out the words seven flights every day
Says six of those birds are bound for JFK
If I d a bucket of goldsilver would do
I d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
And I m going down in Silvertown
Down in Silverdown
Going down Silvertown
Down in Silverdown

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