Darker With The Day
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
[ Lyrics verified on Nick Cave s official site (http://www.nick-cave.com) ]
[ Chords and lyrics transcribed by Andrew Frederico (
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Chords:
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So without a thought I thought I d take a final walk[/tab]
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The tide of public opinion had started to abate[/tab]
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The neighbors (bless em) had turned out to be all talk[/tab]
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I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate[/tab]
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Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure[/tab]
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Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it[/tab]
And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
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And I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it[/tab]
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And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street[/tab]
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Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd[/tab]
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Love followed just behind me panting at my feet as the[/tab]
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Steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud[/tab]
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Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God[/tab]
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Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book[/tab]
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And I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood[/tab]
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And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman s hook[/tab]
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Babe[/tab]
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It seems so long[/tab]
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Since you ve been gone away[/tab]
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And I just gotta say[/tab]
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That it grows darker with the day[/tab]
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Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun[/tab]
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It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new[/tab]
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And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done[/tab]
By those who could not choose between the two
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Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones[/tab]
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The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and s[/tab]
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
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Counting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts[/tab]
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I passed by garden so you with your flowers[/tab]
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The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet[/tab]
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
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You looked so beautiful in the rising heat[/tab]
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I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns[/tab]
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People carry on regardless listening to their hands[/tab]
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Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns[/tab]
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Bored in disgusted to do us down[/tab]
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Babe[/tab]
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It seems so long[/tab]
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Since you ve been gone away[/tab]
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And I just gotta say[/tab]
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That it grows darker with the day[/tab]
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All these streets are frozen now; I come and go[/tab]
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Full of a longing for something I do not know[/tab]
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My father sits slumped in the deepening snow[/tab]
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As I search in and out, above, about, and below[/tab]
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Babe[/tab]
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It seems so long[/tab]
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Since you ve been gone away[/tab]
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And I hope and I pray[/tab]
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That it grows darker with the day[/tab]