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Artist/Band: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Lyrics for Song: Darker With The Day
Lyrics for Album: No More Shall We Part [2001]



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



And 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



Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd



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



And I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood



And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook



And 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



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 a crumbs down their fronts



I passed by your garden, saw you with your flowers



The Camellias, Magnolias 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, you went away



And I



Just got to say



That it grows darker with the day



All 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 and below



It seems so long



Since you've been gone and you went away



And I



Opened and pray



That it grows darker with the day


Album Lyrics: No More Shall We Part [2001]


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"No More Shall We Part [2001]"


1. As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
2. And No More Shall We Part
3. Hallelujah
4. Love Letter
5. Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
6. God Is In The House
7. Oh My Lord
8. Sweetheart Come
9. The Sorrowful Wife
10. We Came Along This Road
11. Gates To The Garden
12. Darker With The Day