B
So without a thought I thought Iʼd take a final walk
B7
The tide of public opinion had started to abate
E
The neighbors (bless ʼem) had turned out to be all talk
Em
I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate
B
Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure
B7E
Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it
And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
Em
And I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it
B
And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
B7
Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
E
Love followed just behind me panting at my feet as the
Em
Steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud
B
Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God
B7
Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book
E
And I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
Em
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fishermanʼs hook
B
Babe
B7
It seems so long
EEm
Since youʼve been gone away
DA
And I just gotta say
BmAGF#7
That it grows darker with the day
BB7
Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun
E
It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new
Em
And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done
By those who could not choose between the two
B
Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
B7E
The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and cunts
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
Em
Counting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts
BB7
I passed by garden so you with your flowers
E
The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet
E
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
Em
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat
B
I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns
B7
People carry on regardless listening to their hands
E
Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns
Em
Bored in disgusted to do us down
B
Babe
B7
It seems so long
EEm
Since youʼve been gone away
DA
And I just gotta say
BmAGF#7
That it grows darker with the day
B
All these streets are frozen now; I come and go
B7
Full of a longing for something I do not know
E
My father sits slumped in the deepening snow
Em
As I search in and out, above, about, and below
B
Babe
B7
It seems so long
EEm
Since youʼve been gone away
DA
And I hope and I pray
BmAGF#7
That it grows darker with the day