Drowning Butterflies

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

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

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