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- NICK CAVE - Darker With The Day Lyrics
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- 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
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