Darker With The Day Lyrics - No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave

As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk 

The tide of public opinion had started to abate 

The neighbors, 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