Darker With The Day-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:Darker With The Day] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:No More Shall We Part] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darker With The Day - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (尼克·凯夫和坏种乐队) [00:39.44]As so with that I thought I'd take a final walk [00:42.37] [00:43.72]The tide of public opinion had started to abate [00:46.58] [00:47.51]The neighbours bless them had turned out to be all talk [00:51.53]I could see their frightened faces [00:53.77]Peering at me through the gate [00:55.61]I was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure [00:59.85] [01:00.64]Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it [01:05.37]I thought of my friends who had died of exposure [01:08.35]And I remembered other ones who had died from the lack of it [01:12.96] [01:13.60]And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street [01:17.79] [01:18.48]I stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd [01:21.88] [01:22.51]And love followed just behind me panting at my feet [01:26.16]As the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud [01:29.97] [01:31.35]Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God [01:34.39] [01:35.46]I searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book [01:39.22]I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood [01:43.58] [01:44.22]And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook [01:47.54] [01:48.16]Babe [01:48.93] [01:50.99]It seems so long [01:53.57] [01:55.39]Since you've been gone away [02:02.24] [02:05.76]And I [02:07.23] [02:08.23]Just got to say [02:10.69] [02:12.97]That it grows darker with the day [02:19.66] [02:24.85]Back on the street I saw a great big smiling sun [02:29.08]It was a Good day and an Evil day and all was bright and new [02:33.67]And it seemed to me that most destruction was being done [02:37.13]By those who could not choose between the two [02:40.02] [02:40.58]Amateurs dilettantes hacks cowboys clones [02:45.20]The streets groan with little Caesars Napoleons and cunts [02:49.93]With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones [02:52.81] [02:53.34]Counting on their fingers with crumbs down their fronts [02:57.03] [02:58.13]I passed by your garden saw you with your flowers [03:02.61]The Magnolias Camellias and Azaleas so sweet [03:06.51] [03:07.17]And I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds [03:09.83] [03:10.85]You looked so beautiful in the rising heat [03:14.17] [03:15.03]I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns [03:18.97] [03:19.52]People carry on regardless listening to their hands [03:23.62]Great cracks appear in the pavement the earth yawns [03:27.20] [03:27.82]Bored and disgusted to do us down [03:32.19]Babe [03:33.36] [03:34.08]It seems so long [03:36.43] [03:38.17]Since you've been gone [03:41.92] [03:43.14]You went away [03:45.45] [03:47.59]And I [03:49.50] [03:50.40]Just got to say [03:52.71] [03:55.24]That it grows darker with the day [04:00.98] [04:39.97]These streets are frozen now I come and go [04:43.18] [04:43.97]Full of a longing for something I do not know [04:47.72]My father sits slumped in the deepening snow [04:50.47] [04:51.14]As I search in and out above about below [04:55.13] [04:57.31]Babe [04:57.95]It seems so long [05:01.33]Since you've been gone [05:04.98] [05:06.01]You went away [05:07.87] [05:10.53]And I hope and [05:14.19]I pray [05:15.56] [05:17.90]That it grows darker with the day