If I use this silver pound
To buy a drink and fool around
I am only drowning butterflies
I said I'd see you at the factory gates
I was there but you were late
You said sorry - but it wasn't in your eyes
I've got four figures' redundancy pay
And just two weeks to our wedding day
I won't blame you
Whatever you want to do

[Chorus]
When they knock the terraced houses down
There will be no butterflies to drown

Things are changing all around
All my friends have gone to ground
And I'm trying at least to hang on to you
You know this used to be a boom-town
Now they're closing all the factories down
It's no wonder we're all drowning butterflies

[Chorus] (x2)