Silvertown Blues

Song Silvertown Blues
Artist Mark Knopfler
Album Sailing To Philadelphia

Lyrics

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[00:15.95] On Silvertown way the cranes stand high
[00:23.70] Quiet and gray against the still of the sky
[00:30.45] They won't quit and lay down though the action has died
[00:37.71] They watch the new game in town on the blackwall side
[00:45.23] From the poisonous drains a vision appears
[00:52.44] A new circle of cranes, a new reason to be here
[01:00.11] A big silver dome rising up into the dawn
[01:07.04] Above the church and the homes where all the silver is gone, gone, gone
[01:14.45] If I'd a bucket of gold, what would I do
[01:21.56] I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues
[01:27.52] Going down in Silvertown
[01:31.00] Down in Silvertown
[01:34.53] Going down in Silvertown
[01:39.32] Down in Silvertown
[01:43.70] A silver dawn steals over the docks
[01:51.06] A truck with no wheels up on the cinder blocks
[01:58.52] Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum
[02:05.47] Scrap metal schemes rusted over and done, done, done
[02:12.61] If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do
[02:19.76] I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues
[02:25.70] And I'm going down in Silvertown
[02:29.27] Down in Silvertown
[02:32.70] I'm going down in Silvertown
[02:37.90] Down in Silvertown
[02:41.78] When you're standing on thin and dangerous ice
[02:49.14] You can knock and walk in for citizens' advice
[02:56.36] They'll tell you where you can turn, where you can go
[03:03.91] There's nothing they can tell me, I don't already know
[03:10.95] If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would do
[03:18.13] I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues
[03:23.83] And I'm going down in Silvertown
[03:27.67] Down in Silvertown
[03:31.34] I'm going down in Silvertown
[03:36.28] Down in Silvertown
[03:38.51] From the caning town train I saw a Billboard high
[03:47.48] There's a big silver plane rising up into the sky
[03:54.46] And I can make out the words 'Seven flights every day'
[04:01.90] Says six of those birds are bound for JFK
[04:09.36] If I'd a bucket of gold, silver would I do
[04:16.19] I'd leave the story untold Silvertown Blues
[04:22.01] And I'm going down in Silvertown
[04:26.03] Down in Silvertown
[04:29.51] I'm going down in Silvertown
[04:34.64] Down in Silvertown
[04:36.82] I'm going down in Silvertown
[04:41.90] Down in Silvertown
[04:44.02] I'm going down in Silvertown
[04:49.45] Down in Silvertown
[05:03.88] Down in Silvertown
[05:07.05] Down in Silvertown
[05:11.09] Down in Silvertown