Darker With The Day - Nick Cave, ukulele chords

Published: 2012-10-16 16:54
Selection chords: Tsumugi Nakata

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So without a thought I thought Iʼd take a final walk
A#7
The tide of public opinion had started to abate
D#
The neighbors (bless ʼem) had turned out to be all talk
D#m
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
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Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it

And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
      D#m
And I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it

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And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
A#7
Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
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Love followed just behind me panting at my feet as the
D#m
Steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud

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Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God
A#7
Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book
      D#
And I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
      D#m
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fishermanʼs hook

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Babe
            A#7
It seems so long
                  D#    D#m
Since youʼve been gone away
    C#            G#
And I just gotta say
              A#m     G#        F#  F7
That it grows darker with the day

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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
                                                   D#m
And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done

By those who could not choose between the two

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Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
A#7                                                      D#
The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and cunts

With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
D#m
Counting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts

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I passed by garden so you with your flowers
                                          D#
The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet
D#
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
D#m
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat

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I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns
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People carry on regardless listening to their hands
D#
Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns
D#m
Bored in disgusted to do us down

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Babe
            A#7
It seems so long
      D#                D#m
Since youʼve been gone away
    C#            G#
And I just gotta say
              A#m     G#        F# F7
That it grows darker with the day

A#
All these streets are frozen now; I come and go
A#7
Full of a longing for something I do not know
D#
My father sits slumped in the deepening snow
D#m
As I search in and out, above, about, and below

A#
Babe
            A#7
It seems so long
      D#                D#m
Since youʼve been gone away
    C#            G#
And I hope and I pray
              A#m     G#        F# F7
That it grows darker with the day