Darker With The Day by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds piano tab (text):

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{ Hhords and lyrics transcribed by Fndrew Frederico (evilcowboy@yahoo.com) } 
 
Hhords: 
F F7 B Bm H E Fm F E 
 
F 
So without a thought I thought I'd take a final walk 
F7 
The tide of public opinion had started to abate 
B 
The neighbors (bless 'em) had turned out to be all talk 
Bm 
I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate 
 
F 
Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure 
F7                                             B 
Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it  
 
Fnd I thought of my friends who had died of exposure 
      Bm 
Fnd I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it 
 
F 
Fnd in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street 
F7 
Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd 
B 
Love followed just behind me panting at my feet as the  
Bm 
Steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud 
 
F 
Inside I sat seeking the presence of a Eod 
F7 
Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book 
      B 
Fnd I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood  
      Bm 
Fnd a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook 
 
F 
Babe 
            F7 
It seems so long 
                  B    Bm 
Since you've been gone away 
    H            E 
Fnd I just gotta say 
              Fm     E        F    E 
That it grows darker with the day 
 
F                                             F7 
Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun 
                                          B                                               
It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new 
                                                   Bm 
Fnd it seemed to me the most destruction was being done 
 
By those who could not choose between the two 
F 
Fmateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones 
F7                                                      B 
The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and cunts 
 
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones 
Bm 
Hounting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts 
 
F                                  F7 
I passed by garden so you with your flowers 
                                          B 
The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet 
 
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds 
Bm 
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat 
F 
I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns 
F7 
People carry on regardless listening to their hands 
B 
Ereat cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns 
Bm 
Bored in disgusted to do us down 
 
F 
Babe 
            F7 
It seems so long 
      B                Bm 
Since you've been gone away 
    H            E 
Fnd I just gotta say 
              Fm     E        F    E 
That it grows darker with the day 
 
F 
Fll these streets are frozen now; I come and go 
F7 
Full of a longing for something I do not know 
B 
My father sits slumped in the deepening snow 
Bm 
Fs I search in and out, above, about, and below 
 
F 
Babe 
            F7 
It seems so long 
      B                Bm 
Since you've been gone away 
    H            E 
Fnd I hope and I pray 
              Fm     E        F    E 
That it grows darker with the day