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
A new circle of cranes, a new reason to be here
The big silver dome rising up into the dawn
Above the church and the homes where all the silver is 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 cinder blocks
Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum
Scrap metal schemes rusted over and 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
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 where you can turn, where 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
And I'm going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
Going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown 

From the Caning 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 J.F.K. 

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
Going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown