{ Chords and lyrics transcribed by Andrew Frederico (evilcowboy@yahoo.com ) } Chords: A5 A5 D5 D5 C5 G5 A5 F5 E5 A5 So without a thought I thought I'd take a final walk A5 The tide of public opinion had started to abate D5 The neighbors (bless 'em ) had turned out to be all talk D5 I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate A5 Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure A5 D5 Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure D5 And I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it A5 And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street A5 Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd D5 Love followed just behind me panting at my feet as the D5 Steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud A5 Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God A5 Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book D5 And I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood D5 And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook A5 Babe A5 It seems so long D5 D5 Since you've been gone away C5 G5 And I just gotta say A5 G5 F5 E5 That it grows darker with the day A5 A5 Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun D5 It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new D5 And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done By those who could not choose between the two A5 Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones A5 D5 The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and cunts With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones D5 Counting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts A5 A5 I passed by garden so you with your flowers D5 The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds D5 You looked so beautiful in the rising heat A5 I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns A5 People carry on regardless listening to their hands D5 Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns D5 Bored in disgusted to do us down A5 Babe A5 It seems so long D5 D5 Since you've been gone away C5 G5 And I just gotta say A5 G5 F5 E5 That it grows darker with the day A5 All these streets are frozen now; I come and go A5 Full of a longing for something I do not know D5 My father sits slumped in the deepening snow D5 As I search in and out, above, about, and below A5 Babe A5 It seems so long D5 D5 Since you've been gone away C5 G5 And I hope and I pray A5 G5 F5 E5 That it grows darker with the day