Chords:

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                                             D

Time moved so rapidly I had no 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



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                                             A7

Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun

                                          D

It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new

                                                   Dm

And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done



By those who could not choose between the two

A

Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones

A7                                                      D

The streets groaned with little 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                                  A7

I passed by garden so you with your flowers

                                          D

The camellias, magnolias, and 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				 Send "Darker With The Day" Ringtone to your Cell