Darker With The Day
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

[ Lyrics verified on Nick Cave's official site (http://www.nick-cave.com) ]
[ Chords and lyrics transcribed by Andrew Frederico (evilcowboy@yahoo.com) ]

Chords:
AA7 DDm CG AmF E (022100@1)ASo (x02220@1)without a thought I thought I'd take a final walk
A7The (x02020@1)tide of public opinion had started to abate
DThe (xx0232@1)neighbors (bless 'em) had turned out to be all talk
DmI (xx0231@1)could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate

AWas (x02220@1)looking for an end to this for some kind of closure
A7 (x02020@1)                                           DTime (xx0232@1)moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it

And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
      DmAnd (xx0231@1)I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it

AAnd (x02220@1)in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
A7Stopped (x02020@1)at a church and jostled through the crowd
DLove (xx0232@1)followed just behind me panting at my feet as the
DmSteeple (xx0231@1)tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud

AInside (x02220@1)I sat seeking the presence of a God
A7Searched (x02020@1)through the pictures in a leather-bound book
      DAnd (xx0232@1)I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
      DmAnd (xx0231@1)a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook

ABabe (x02220@1)            A7It (x02020@1)seems so long
                  D (xx0232@1)  DmSince (xx0231@1)you've been gone away
    C (x32010@1)          GAnd (320003@1)I just gotta say
              Am (x02210@1)   G (320003@1)      F (133211@1)  EThat (022100@1)it grows darker with the day

A (x02220@1)                                           A7Back (x02020@1)on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun
                                          DIt (xx0232@1)was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new
                                                   DmAnd (xx0231@1)it seemed to me the most destruction was being done

By those who could not choose between the two
AAmateurs, (x02220@1)dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
A7 (x02020@1)                                                    DThe (xx0232@1)streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and cunts

With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
DmCounting (xx0231@1)on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts

A (x02220@1)                                A7I (x02020@1)passed by garden so you with your flowers
                                          DThe (xx0232@1)camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet

I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
DmYou (xx0231@1)looked so beautiful in the rising heat
AI (x02220@1)smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns
A7People (x02020@1)carry on regardless listening to their hands
DGreat (xx0232@1)cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns
DmBored (xx0231@1)in disgusted to do us down

ABabe (x02220@1)            A7It (x02020@1)seems so long
      D (xx0232@1)              DmSince (xx0231@1)you've been gone away
    C (x32010@1)          GAnd (320003@1)I just gotta say
              Am (x02210@1)   G (320003@1)      F (133211@1)  EThat (022100@1)it grows darker with the day

AAll (x02220@1)these streets are frozen now; I come and go
A7Full (x02020@1)of a longing for something I do not know
DMy (xx0232@1)father sits slumped in the deepening snow
DmAs (xx0231@1)I search in and out, above, about, and below

ABabe (x02220@1)            A7It (x02020@1)seems so long
      D (xx0232@1)              DmSince (xx0231@1)you've been gone away
    C (x32010@1)          GAnd (320003@1)I hope and I pray
              Am (x02210@1)   G (320003@1)      F (133211@1)  EThat (022100@1)it grows darker with the day