Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Darker With The Day (Ukulele)

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Lyrics verified on Nick Cave's official site (http://www.nick-cave.com) Chords and lyrics transcribed by Andrew Frederico ([email protected]) Chords: G G7 C Cm Bb F Gm F Eb D7
G
So without a thought I thought I'd take a final walk

G7
The tide of public opinion had started to abate

C
The neighbors (bless 'em) had turned out to be all talk

Cm
I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate

G
Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure

G7                                             C
Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it
And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
      Cm
And I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it

G
And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street

G7
Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd

C
Love followed just behind me panting at my feet as the

Cm
Steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud

G
Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God

G7
Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book

      C
And I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood

      Cm
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook

G
Babe

            G7
It seems so long

                  C    Cm
Since you've been gone away

    Bb           F
And I just gotta say

              Gm     F        Eb   D7
That it grows darker with the day

G                                             G7
Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun

                                          C
It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new

                                                   Cm
And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done
By those who could not choose between the two
G
Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones

G7                                                      C
The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and cunts
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
Cm
Counting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts

G                                  G7
I passed by garden so you with your flowers

                                          C
The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
Cm
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat

G
I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns

G7
People carry on regardless listening to their hands

C
Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns

Cm
Bored in disgusted to do us down

G
Babe

            G7
It seems so long

      C                Cm
Since you've been gone away

    Bb           F
And I just gotta say

              Gm     F        Eb   D7
That it grows darker with the day

G
All these streets are frozen now; I come and go

G7
Full of a longing for something I do not know

C
My father sits slumped in the deepening snow

Cm
As I search in and out, above, about, and below

G
Babe

            G7
It seems so long

      C                Cm
Since you've been gone away

    Bb           F
And I hope and I pray

              Gm     F        Eb   D7
That it grows darker with the day