LyricMeaning

Darker With the Day
Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

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


  Purchase "Darker With the Day"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Darker With the Day" Video   Play Spotify "Darker With the Day" Song   View Wikipedia "Darker With the Day" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Nick Cave & The Bad Seed Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Darker With the Day"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

  500 Miles   A Box For Black Paul   A Dead Song   Abattoir Blues   Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore   Albert Goes West   All The Pretty Little Horses   All The Pretty Little Horses (Traditional Version)   All The Pretty Little Horsies   All Tomorrow's Parties   And No More Shall We Part   Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?   As I Sat Sadly By Her Side   Avalanche   Babe, I Got You Bad   Babe, I'm on Fire   Babe, You Turn Me On   Big-Jesus-Trash-Can   Black Betty   Black Betty (Nick Cave Version)   Black Betty (Traditional Version)   Black Crow King   Black Hair   Blast Off   Bless His Ever Loving Heart   Blind Lemon Jefferson   Blue Bird   Blundertown   Breathless   Bring It On   Brompton Oratory   Brother, My Cup Is Empty   By The Time I Get To Phoenix   Cabin Fever!   Cannibal's Hymn   Capers   Carry Me   Cassiel's Song   Christina The Astonishing   Cindy   Cindy (Traditional Version)   City Of Refuge   City Of Refuge - Ciudad Protectora (spanish Versio...   Come Into My Sleep   Crow Jane   Cry   Dead Joe   Dead Man in My Bed   Deanna   Deanna - Diana (spanish Version)   Death Is Not The End   Deep in the Woods   Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!   Do You Love Me?   Do You Love Me? (part 2)   Down in a Willow Garden   Down In A Willow Garden (Traditional Version)   Dull Day   Dumb Europe   Easy Money   Fable Of The Brown Ape   Far From Me   Faraway, So Close!   Fears of Gun   Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow   Foi Na Cruz   From Her To Eternity   Gates to the Garden   Get Ready For Love   Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass   Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass - Mujer Al Fondo De...   God Is in the House   God's Hotel   Green Eyes   Grief Came Riding   Hallelujah   Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)   Happy Birthday   Hard On For Love   He Wants You   Helpless   Henry Lee   Henry Lee (Nick Cave version)   Hey Joe   Hiding All Away   Ho-ho   Hold On To Yourself   How Long, How Long Blues   How Long, How Long Blues (Traditional Version)   I Do Dear, I Do.   I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)   I Feel So Good   I Had A Dream, Joe   I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condit...   I Let Love In   I Put A Spell On You   I Rowed a Little Boat   I Rowed A Little Boat (Traditional Version)   I'll Love You Till The End Of The World   I'm Gonna Kill That Woman   Idiot Prayer   In The Ghetto   Into My Arms   Jack The Ripper   Jack's Shadow   Jangling Jack   Jennifer's Veil   Jesus Met The Woman At The Well   Jesus Of The Moon   John Finn's Wife   Junkyard   Just You and Me   Katy Cruel (Traditional Version)   Kewpie Doll   King Ink   King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O   Kiss Me Black   Knockin' On Joe   Knoxville Girl   Lament   Lay Me Low   Let The Bells Ring   Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)   Little Empty Boat   Little Janey's Gone   Little Water Song   Long Black Veil   Long Time Fan   Long Time Man   Long Time Man (Nick Cave version)   Love Henry   Love Henry (Traditional Version)   Love Letter   Lovely Creature   Loverman   Lucy   Mack The Knife   Mama's Boy   Mercy - Misericordia (spanish Version)   Messiah Ward   Midnight Man   Mister Frog Went A-Courting   Mister Frog Went A-Courting (Traditional Version)   Mojo   Moonland   More News From Nowhere   Mr. Clarinet   Muddy Water   Mutiny in Heaven   Nature Boy   New Morning   New Morning - Nuevo Amanecer (spanish Version)   Nick the Stripper   Night Of The Lotus Eaters   Nobody's Baby Now   O Children   O'Malley's Bar   Oh My Lord   Oh, Happy Day   Oh, Happy Day (Traditional Version)   Opium Tea   Oxford Tragedy (Traditional Version)   Papa Won't Leave You, Henry   Patripassian   Peace In the Valley   Peace In the Valley (Traditional Version)   People Ain't No Good   Plain Gold Ring   Pleasure Is The Boss   Rainy Night In Soho   Rainy Night In Soho (traditional Version)   Red Right Hand   Release the Bats   Riddle House (Howard)   Right Now I'm A-Roaming   Right Out of Your Hand   Rock of Gibraltar   Running Scared   Rye Whiskey   Rye Whiskey (Traditional Version)   Rye Whiskey (tranditonal version)   Sad Dark Eyes   Sad Waters   Sail Away   Saint Huck   Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree   Scum   Several Sins   She Fell Away   She Passed by My Window   She's Hit   She's Leaving You   Shivers (Howard)   Six Inch Gold Blade   Sleeping Analeah   Slowly Goes The Night   Slowly Goes The Night - Despacio Pasa La Noche (sp...   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Song Of Joy   Sonny's Burning   Sorrow's Child   Spell   Stagalee   Stagger Lee   Stagolee (Traditional Version 1)   Stagolee (Traditional Version 2)   Stagolee (Traditional Version 3)   Still in Love   Stow-a-way   Straight To You   Stranger Than Kindness   Sugar Sugar Sugar   Sugar Sugar Sugar - Dulce Dulce Dulce (spanish Ver...   Sunday's Slave   Sunday's Slave - Esclavos Del Domingo (spanish Ver...   Supernaturally   Swampland   Sweetheart Come   That's What Jazz Is To Me   The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane   The Big Hurt   The Briddle Path   The Carnival Is Over   The Carny   The Curse Of Millhaven   The Dim Locator   The Friend Catcher   The Good Hun   The Good Son   The Good Son (Nick Cave Version)   The Hammer Song   The Kindness Of Strangers   The Loom Of The Land   The Lyre Of Orpheus   The Mercy Seat   The Mercy Seat - Santuario (spanish Version)   The Moon Is In The Gutter   The Ship Song   The Singer   The Six Strings That Drew Blood   The Sorrowful Wife   The Sweetest Embrace   The Train Song   The Weeping Song   The Willow Garden   The Witness Song   There Is A Kingdom   There Is A Light   There Is a Town   There She Goes, My Beautiful World   Thirsty Dog   Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum   To Be By Your Side   Today's Lesson   Tower Of Song   Train Long-suffering   Truck Love   Tupelo   Tupelo Blues   Tupelo Blues (Traditional Version)   Up Jumped The Devil   Up Jumped The Devil - Saltado El Demonio (spanish ...   Viviane   Vixo   Wade In The Water   Wade In The Water (Traditional Version)   Wanted Man   Watching Alice   Watching Alice - Mirando A Alicia (spanish Version...   We Call Upon The Author   We Came Along This Road   Well Of Misery   West Country Girl   What A Wonderful World   What Can I Give You?   When I First Came To Town   Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere   Where The Action Is   Where The Wild Roses Grow   Wife   Wild World   Wings Off Flies   Wonderful Life   Yard   Young Hunting (Traditional Version)   Young Hunting (tranditional version)   Your Funeral... My Trial   Zoo Music Girl

Related Songs

  Darker With The Day - Soundtrack Artists  The Wrong Side - Abney Park  The Wrong Side - Abney Park  Abre Los Ojos - Crime in Stereo  Shades of Gray - Amorphis  Darker Side Of The Moon - Otherwise  My Dear Country - Norah Jones  I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return...  Rain - Angel Unthinkable  To The Woman - Tammany Hall Nyc  to the woman who saved my life - Tammany Hall Nyc  We Dance Alone [DVD][*] - Beck  We Dance Alone - Beck  The Blackened Day - Eldritch  Here Come The Philistines - T Bone Burnett  I See Snow Clouds - Flood of Red  Sometimes - Psychedelic Furs  MM Abduction - Swervedriver  Beyond and Back - X  Darker - Gucci Mane  Gucci Mane Darker feat. Chief Keef. Off of Gucci's...  Couldn't Get It Right - UFO  Darker Side Of Night - John Entwistle  Twilight Campfighter - Guided By Voices  Darker - Diary of Dreams  Darker - Flow  Darker - Doves  Darker - Bride  Darker - JME  Falling Into You - Kasey Chambers  Darker Days - Time Again  Simple Days - Bumblefoot  The Blackest Day - Lana Del Rey  The Dividing Line - October Tide  The Woods - Stars  Morning Mist - Immortal Souls  Darker Shade - Phantom Planet  Darker Now - Deadstar Assembly  Darker Side Of Blue - Tal Bachman  Forging Sympathy - Paradise Lost  Never Be - Kelley McRae  Albina - Horse Feathers  Darker My Love - T.s.o.l. (tsol)  Darker Side - Jonny Lang  Vein (I Bleed) - Imperanon  Darker Days - Addison Groove Project  The Lizard - Enchant  Ghost in the Mirror - Asia  I Made A Choice - Karen Clark-Sheard  I Made A Choice Karen Clark Sheard...  My Days Are Darker Than Your Nights...  Spidey's Curse - Black Lips  Spidey\u2019s Curse - Black Lips  Ms - Alt-J  The Great Curve - Phish  The Great Curve [DVD] - Talking Heads  The Great Curve - Talking Heads  Sensory Perception - Contrition  With These Hands - Alejandro Escovedo  The Ghost - Steel Pole Bath Tub  In Black - Cemetary  Four Leaf Clover - A Delicate Disaster  Haircut - Waifs  You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen  Darker Days - Four Star Mary  Darker Side Of Town - Waite John  Eyes Of Obsidian - Cage  Lost [Video][*][Multimedia Track]...  Triumph - I'mmortal (Immortal)  In Not of - Avalon  In Not Of - Clay Aiken  Withstand The Fall Of Time - I'mmortal (Immortal)  Withstand The Fall Of Time - Immortal  Darker Days - UFO  Dead Letters - Katatonia  Happy Days - Brooke Candy  Sweeter Than Honey - Jefferson Starship  Take Me Out on a Stretcher - Danko Jones  Darker Side Of Town - John Waite  Wish This Were A Love Song - Drowning Fish  The Ghost - Willie Nelson  Ghost - Willie Nelson  Triumph - Immortal  Turn To The Assassin - Jose Gonzalez  We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue...  Final Frontier - Mygrain  Gone - Andy Shauf  A Crimson Cosmos - Lake Of Tears  Darker Times - Soft Cell  Scare Yourself - D-A-D  Fire of the Mind - Coil  Bats - My Toys Like Me  Black on Black - Andre Andersen  The Darker Depths - Kioskontrol  The Darker Side - Balance Of Power  When the Paint Grows Darker Still - Frank Black  Drown - Ja Rule  Winter, Fire And Snow - Anúna  Futile Salvation - Daylight Misery  Ain't Going Down This Way - Chris Rea  Ain't Going Down This Way - Chris Rea  The Animal In Me - Cassadee Pope  All Who Remain - Beware of Darkness  Broken Bones - Crane Brothers  Bloodsong - Mercenary  Never Wanna Let You Go - Take That  World of Confusion - Gov't Mule  Swear It Like You Mean It - Go Radio  Think Of Me - Drowners  Fist of a Flower - Gemma Ray  We People Who Are Darker Than Blue...  Lucie, Too - Now, Now  Frame - Eric's Trip  Bluebells - Patrick Wolf  A New Hope - Five Iron Frenzy  Julie With... - Brian Eno  Perfect Day - Jimmy Somerville  In Town - Andy Shauf  The Haircut - Waifs  Beggar's Day - Nazareth  Bones To Dust - Psyopus  Walking Shadows - Sikth  The Darker Side of Me - Brother Dege  Overloaded - Nosound  The World Is Darker (feat. Auf der Maur)...  A Darker Forest - Thursday  Cold As Ice - King Diamond  Child's Play - T.n.t.  Satan's Child - Marc Almond  [Untitled Track] - Me'Shell Ndegéocello  [Untitled] - Me'Shell Ndegéocello  Thoughts By A Weary Man's Side - Autumnblaze  Untitled - Me'Shell Ndeg\u00e9ocello  Lucie Too - Now, Now Every Children  Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood - Volbeat  Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood - Volbeat  Like A Child - Wishbone Ash  Play Nice - Pacific Air  This Love, This Love - Kashmir  24 Hour Blue (Just One of Those Days)...  24 Hour Blue - Vivian Green  Silver and Fire - M. Craft  The Coffin Don't Want Me and She Don't Either...  Innocence - Orange 9mm  The Animal In Me - Mötley Crüe  Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid - Hall & Oates  4 Lonely Roads - Manic Street Preachers  Hard To Miss - Aaron Pritchett  In Near Ruins - Neaera  A Bullet Named Christ - Wednesday 13  Bitter - I Am Karate  A Darker Shade Of Black - Mercenary  Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood - Volbeat  Finding Your Feet - ACODA  Darker Days - Mushroomhead  Darker Days - Woods of Desolation  Darker Days - Stream of Passion  Darker Times - In Flames  Darker Days - AM  Darker Days - Bertie Blackman  Darker Skies - Carve   The Dark Won't Get Darker - Bobby Long  Kiss - Dope Stars Inc  Sail Away - Badfinger  Lookin' For a Love - Andrew Jackson Jihad  A Godly Work Of Art - Arise  TV Movie - Pulp  Never Want To Let You Go - Take That  We people who are darker than blue dublin sessions...  Rid The Darkness - Gadget  We the people who are darker than blue london sess...  Closer, The Ballad of Burt and Linda - Cheap Trick  Closer, The Ballad Of Burt & Linda - Cheap Trick  Impossible Dreams - Alex Day  Hands Of Time - Asia  Of Many Colors - Alela Diane  66?Fucking?6 - Onslaught  Legions - Savatage  Karmageddon - Nargaroth  I'm Going on a Long Journey Never to Return...  Dark Tower - Miniature Tigers  As the Raven Flies - Dan Fogelberg  Nomad - S.U.N.  Break - Selah Sue  Deeper Shade Of Blue - Steps  Keeps Getting Better - Josh Hoge  Healing Time - John Denver  Intro - SCARFACE  Hematidrosis - With Blood Comes Cleansing  Darker Side of the Moon - Goapele  Going Home Tonight - Allison Crowe  January - Austin Nivarel  Absolute Gray - Brandon Henderson  La Strada Astra - Gate 9  Black Winter Day - Amorphis & Children of Bodom   Black Winter Day (Amorphis cover)...  Black Winter Day - Children Of Bodom  Drop Your Guard - Jasmine Thompson  Black Rose - Willie Nelson  Serpentine - Pram
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.