Darker with the day lyrics

Artist  : Nick cave & 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