Darker With The Day lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Darker With The Day
 


As so with that, I thought I'd take a final
walk
The tide of public opinion had started to
abate
The neighbours, bless them, had turned
out to be all talk
I could see their
frightened faces
peering at me through the
gate

I was looking for an end to this, for
some kind of closure
Time moved so rapidly, I
had no hope of keeping track of it
I thought
of my friends who had died of exposure
And I
remembered other ones who had died from the lack
of it

And in my best shoes I started
falling forward down the street
I stopped at a
church and jostled through the crowd
And love
followed just behind me, panting at my feet
As
the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little
cloud

Inside I sat, seeking the presence
of a God
I searched through the pictures in a
leather-bound book
I found a woolly lamb
dozing in an issue of blood
And a gilled Jesus
shivering on a fisherman's hook
Babe
It
seems so long
Since you've been gone
away
And I
Just got to say
That it grows
darker with the day

Back on the street I
saw a great big smiling sun
It was a Good day
and an Evil day and all was bright and new
And
it seemed to me that most destruction was being
done
By those who could not choose between the
two

Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys,
clones
The streets groan with little Caesars,
Napoleons and cunts
With their building blocks
and their tiny plastic phones
Counting on
their fingers, with crumbs down their
fronts

I passed by your garden, saw you
with your flowers
The Magnolias, Camellias and
Azaleas so sweet
And I stood there invisible
in the panicking crowds
You looked so
beautiful in the rising heat

I smell
smoke, see little fires bursting on the
lawns
People carry on regardless, listening to
their hands
Great cracks appear in the
pavement, the earth yawns
Bored and disgusted,
to do us down

Babe
It seems so
long
Since you've been gone
And I
Just
got to say
That it grows darker with the
day

These streets are frozen now. I come
and go
Full of a longing for something I do
not know
My father sits slumped in the
deepening snow
As I search, in and out, above,
about, below

Babe
It seems so
long
Since you went away
And I
Just got
to Say
That it grows darker with the day