Darker With The Day-Nick Cave

[ti:Darker With The Day] [ar:Nick Cave] [al:The Passion Of The Christ Soundtrack] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darker With The Day - Nick Cave [00:38.89]So with that I thought I'd take a final walk [00:41.60] [00:43.20]The tide of public opinion had started to abate [00:46.00] [00:47.06]The neighbours bless them had turned out to be all talk [00:50.12] [00:50.99]I could see their frightened faces [00:52.84]Peering at me through the gate [00:54.42] [00:55.62]I was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure [00:59.27] [01:00.21]Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it [01:04.47]And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure [01:07.39]And I remembered other ones who had died from the lack of it [01:12.31] [01:13.05]And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street [01:17.18] [01:18.02]Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd [01:21.13] [01:22.02]Love followed just behind me panting at my feet [01:25.41]As the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud [01:29.17] [01:30.85]Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God [01:33.86] [01:34.94]I searched through the pictures in a leather bound book [01:38.60]And I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood [01:42.51]And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook [01:47.55]And babe [01:49.23] [01:50.63]It seems so long [01:53.62] [01:55.01]Since you've been gone away [02:02.51] [02:05.04]And I [02:06.99] [02:07.70]Just got to say [02:10.23] [02:12.53]That it grows darker with the day [02:19.07] [02:24.32]Back on the street I saw a great big smiling sun [02:27.87] [02:28.56]It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new [02:32.39] [02:32.95]It seemed to me that most destruction was being done [02:35.64] [02:36.60]By those who could not choose between the two [02:39.43] [02:40.11]Amateurs dilettantes hacks cowboys clones [02:44.16] [02:44.75]The streets groan with little Caesars Napoleons and cunts [02:49.38]With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones [02:52.18] [02:52.85]Counting on their fingers with a crumbs down their fronts [02:56.54] [02:57.55]I passed by your garden saw you with your flowers [03:01.37] [03:02.15]The Camellias Magnolias and Azaleas so sweet [03:06.45]And I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds [03:08.92] [03:10.26]You looked so beautiful in the rising heat [03:13.99] [03:14.57]I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns [03:18.22] [03:18.88]People carry on regardless listening to their hands [03:22.26] [03:23.03]Great cracks appear in the pavement the earth yawns [03:26.55] [03:27.29]Bored and disgusted to do us down [03:31.25]Babe [03:32.52] [03:33.60]It seems so long [03:36.03] [03:37.78]Since you've been gone you went away [03:44.54] [03:47.28]And I [03:49.51] [03:50.02]Just got to say [03:52.10] [03:54.65]That it grows darker with the day [04:00.92] [04:39.33]All these streets are frozen now I come and go [04:42.24] [04:43.34]Full of a longing for something I do not know [04:46.08] [04:46.98]My father sits slumped in the deepening snow [04:49.77] [04:50.60]As I search in and out above about and below [04:55.31] [04:56.85]It seems so long [04:59.99] [05:00.89]Since you've been gone and you went away [05:07.70] [05:10.17]And I [05:12.80]Opened and pray [05:15.33] [05:17.35]That it grows darker with the day