Darker with the day lyrics

Artist  : Nick cave 
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 trough 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 trough the
crowd 
And love followed just behind me 
panting at my feet 
At the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely
little cloud 
 
Inside I sat, seeking the presence of a God 
I searched trough 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 beeing done 
By those who could not choose 
between the two 
 
Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboya, 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 Mangolias, Camellias and Azaleas so sweet 
And I stood there invisible in the panicking
crowds 
You looked so beatiful 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