Darker With The Day - Nick Cave, ukulele chords

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

G#
So without a thought I thought Iʼd take a final walk
G#7
The tide of public opinion had started to abate
C#
The neighbors (bless ʼem) had turned out to be all talk
C#m
I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate

G#
Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure
G#7                                             C#
Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it

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

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

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

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

G#                                             G#7
Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun
                                          C#
It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new
                                                   C#m
And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done

By those who could not choose between the two

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

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

G#                                  G#7
I passed by garden so you with your flowers
                                          C#
The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet
C#
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
C#m
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat

G#
I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns
G#7
People carry on regardless listening to their hands
C#
Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns
C#m
Bored in disgusted to do us down

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

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

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