[00:04.62]Darker With The Day
[00:10.60]Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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[00:38.48]As so with that,
[00:39.56]I thought I'd take a final walk
[00:42.60]The tide of public opinion had started to abate
[00:46.50]The neighbours, bless them,
[00:48.37]had turned out to be all talk
[00:50.51]I could see their frightened faces
[00:51.74]peering at me through the gate
[00:55.22]I was looking for an end to this,
[00:57.14]for some kind of closure
[00:59.75]Time moved so rapidly,
[01:01.44]I had no hope of keeping track of it
[01:04.14]I thought of my friends
[01:05.30]who had died of exposure
[01:07.08]And I remembered other ones
[01:09.21]who had died from the lack of it
[01:12.59]And in my best shoes
[01:14.29]I started falling forward down the street
[01:17.48]I stopped at a church
[01:19.23]and jostled through the crowd
[01:21.56]And love followed just behind me,
[01:23.23]panting at my feet
[01:24.87]As the steeple tore the stomach
[01:26.97]from a lonely little cloud
[01:30.32]Inside I sat,
[01:31.58]seeking the presence of a God
[01:34.62]I searched through the pictures
[01:36.10]in a leather-bound book
[01:37.93]I found a woolly lamb dozing
[01:39.89]in an issue of blood
[01:42.24]And a gilled Jesus shivering
[01:44.89]on a fisherman's hook
[01:47.76]Babe
[01:50.45]It seems so long
[01:54.49]Since you've been gone away
[02:04.48]And I
[02:07.28]Just got to say
[02:12.10]That it grows darker with the day
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[02:23.72]Back on the street
[02:24.94]I saw a great big smiling sun
[02:27.86]It was a Good day and an Evil day
[02:30.32]and all was bright and new
[02:32.22]that most destruction was being done
[02:32.66]And it seemed to me
[02:36.25]By those who could not choose between the two
[02:39.53]Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
[02:44.25]The streets groan with little Caesars,
[02:47.09]Napoleons and cunts
[02:48.76]With their building blocks
[02:50.09]and their tiny plastic phones
[02:52.52]Counting on their fingers,
[02:54.18]with crumbs down their fronts
[02:57.16]I passed by your garden,
[02:59.44]saw you with your flowers
[03:01.62]The Magnolias, Camellias and Azaleas so sweet
[03:06.86]And I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
[03:09.75]You looked so beautiful in the rising heat
[03:14.21]I smell smoke,
[03:15.27]see little fires bursting on the lawns
[03:18.64]People carry on regardless,
[03:20.16]listening to their hands
[03:22.65]Great cracks appear in the pavement,
[03:25.30]the earth yawns
[03:26.85]Bored and disgusted,
[03:29.16]to do us down
[03:31.34]Babe
[03:33.28]It seems so long
[03:37.30]Since you've been gone
[03:47.28]And I
[03:49.64]Just got to say
[03:54.53]That it grows darker with the day
[04:03.06]
[04:39.19]These streets are frozen now.
[04:40.81]I come and go
[04:42.93]Full of a longing for something
[04:44.61]I do not know
[04:46.55]My father sits slumped
[04:48.10]in the deepening snow
[04:50.05]As I search, in and out, above, about, below
[04:56.63]It seems so long
[05:00.43]Since you went away
[05:09.73]And I
[05:12.33]Open the brain
[05:17.44]That it grows darker with the day
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