On Silvertown Way the cranes stand high
  Quiet and gray against the still of the sky
  The 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
  A 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 cinderblocks
  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 noting 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 see 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