Darker With The Day

A A7 D Dm C G Am F E

A
So without a thought I thought I'd 
take a final walk
A7
The tide of public opinion had 
started to abate
D
The neighbors (bless 'em) had turned
 out to be all talk
Dm
I could see their frightened faces 
peering at me through the gate

A
Was looking for an end to this for 
some kind of closure
A7                                
Time moved so rapidly I had no 
             D
hope of keeping track of it

And I thought of my friends who had 
died of exposure
      Dm
And I remembered all the ones who 
had died from the lack of it

A
And in my best shoes I started 
falling forward down the street
A7
Stopped at a church and jostled 
through the crowd
D
Love followed just behind me panting
 at my feet as the
Dm
Steeple tore the stomach from a 
lonely little cloud

A
Inside I sat seeking the presence of
 a God
A7
Searched through the pictures in a 
leather-bound book
      D
And I found a wooly lamb dozing in 
an issue of blood
      Dm
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a 
fisherman's hook

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A
Babe
            A7
It seems so long
                  D    Dm
Since you've been gone away
    C            G
And I just gotta say
              Am     G        F    E
That it grows darker with the day

A                                 
Back on the street I saw a great, 
            A7
big smiling sun
It was a good day and an evil day 
        D
and all was bright and new
And it seemed to me the most 
                      Dm
destruction was being done

By those who could not choose 
between the two
A
Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, 
cowboys, clones
A7                            
The streets groaned with little 
                          D
ceasars, napoleons, and cunts

With their building blocks and their
 tiny plastic phones
Dm
Counting on their fingers with the 
crumbs down their fronts

A                                  
I passed by garden so you with your
A7
 flowers
The camellias, magnolias, and 
            D
azaleas so sweet

I stood there invisible in the 
panicking crowds
Dm
You looked so beautiful in the 
rising heat
A
I smell smoke see little fires 
bursting on the lawns
A7
People carry on regardless listening
 to their hands
D
Great cracks appear in the pavement,
 the earth yawns
Dm
Bored in disgusted to do us down

A
Babe
            A7
It seems so long
      D                Dm
Since you've been gone away
    C            G
And I just gotta say
              Am     G        F    E
That it grows darker with the day

A
All these streets are frozen now; I 
come and go
A7
Full of a longing for something I do
 not know
D
My father sits slumped in the 
deepening snow
Dm
As I search in and out, above, 
about, and below

A
Babe
            A7
It seems so long
      D                Dm
Since you've been gone away
    C            G
And I hope and I pray
              Am     G        F    E
That it grows darker with the day