Darker With The Day
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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 leatherbound 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
