Mark Knopfler - Silvertown Blues lyrics

On Silvertown Way, the 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 poisonous drains a vision appears
New circle of cranes, a 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, gone, gone

If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do?
I'd leave the story untold silvertown blues

Going down in Silvertown down in Silvertown
Going down in Silvertown down in Silvertown

A silver dawn steals over the docks
A truck with no wheels up on cinderblocks
Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum
Scrap metal schemes are rusted
Over and done, done, done

If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do
I'd leave the story untold silvertown blues

And I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown

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 turn
The way you can go
There's nothing they can tell me
I don't already know

If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do
I'd leave the story untold
Silvertown blues (Silvertown blues)

And I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown

From the Canning Town train I
Saw a billboard high
There's a big silver plane rising
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 gold, silver would do
I'd leave the story untold
Silvertown blues (Silvertown blues)

I said I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown down in Silvertown

Songwriter: Mark Knopfler