{ 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