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