Cave Nick Darker With The Day Lyrics

Darker With The Day Lyrics

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