The Passion of the Christ movie - Darker With The Day lyrics

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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>

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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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