Song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds<br /><br>
As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk<br>
The tide of public opinion had started to abate<br>
The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk<br>
I could see their frightened faces <br>
peering at me through the gate<br>
<br>
I was looking for an end to this, for some kind of closure<br>
Time moved so rapidly, I had no hope of keeping track of it<br>
I thought of my friends who had died of exposure<br>
And I remembered other ones who had died from the lack of it<br>
<br>
And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street<br>
I stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd<br>
And love followed just behind me, panting at my feet<br>
As the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud<br>
<br>
Inside I sat, seeking the presence of a God<br>
I searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book<br>
I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood<br>
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook<br>
<br>
Babe<br>
It seems so long<br>
Since you've been gone away<br>
And I <br>
Just got to say<br>
That it grows darker with the day<br>
<br>
Back on the street I saw a great big smiling sun<br>
It was a Good day and an Evil day and all was bright and new<br>
And it seemed to me that most destruction was being done<br>
By those who could not choose between the two<br>
<br>
Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones<br>
The streets groan with little Caesars, Napoleons and cunts<br>
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones<br>
Counting on their fingers, with crumbs down their fronts<br>
<br>
I passed by your garden, saw you with your flowers<br>
The Magnolias, Camellias and Azaleas so sweet<br>
And I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds<br>
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat<br>
I smell smoke, see little fires bursting on the lawns<br>
People carry on regardless, listening to their hands<br>
Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns<br>
Bored and disgusted, to do us down<br>
<br>
Babe<br>
It seems so long<br>
Since you've been gone<br>
And I <br>
Just got to say<br>
That it grows darker with the day<br>
<br>
These streets are frozen now. I come and go<br>
Full of a longing for something I do not know<br>
My father sits slumped in the deepening snow<br>
As I search, in and out, above, about, below<br>
<br>
Babe<br>
It seems so long<br>
Since you went away<br>
And I<br>
Just got to say<br>
That it grows darker with the day <br>
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