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Song title:      Darker With The Day
Original Album:	 No More Shall We Part

Words by Nick Cave and Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis 
Copyright © 2001 Mute Records
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This is a gorgeous piano song. You'll probably need to work
out an own arrangement for guitar, though. The song is quite slow.
Here, at least, are the chords.


INTRO:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    C  x32010 or x35553    E 022100
A7 x02020 or 575655    G  320033 or 355433
D  xx0232 or x57775    Am x02210 or 577555
Dm xx0231 or x57765    F  x33211 or 133211

[play: | A | A7 | D | Dm | C | G | Am | F E |


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

A
  So without a thought I'd take a final walk
A7
  The tide of public opinion had started to abate
D
  The neighbours (bless 'em) had turned out to be all talk
Dm
  I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

A                                                 A7
  Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure
                                               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


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

A                                                         A7
  And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
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


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

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


CHORUS:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    C  x32010 or x35553    E 022100
A7 x02020 or 575655    G  320033 or 355433
D  xx0232 or x57775    Am x02210 or 577555
Dm xx0231 or x57765    F  x33211 or 133211

A                 A7                D            Dm
Babe, it seems so long since you've   been gone away
    C            G                 Am     G      | F  E |
And I just gotta say that it grows darker with the day


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

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


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

A
  Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
A7                                                        D
  The streets groaned with little Caesars, Napoleons, and cunts
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
Dm
  Counting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

A                                     A7
  I passed by garden so you with your flowers
                                        D
The camelias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
Dm
  You looked so beautiful in the rising heat


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

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


[repeat CHORUS]

[play: | A | A7 | D | Dm | C | G | Am | F E |]


VERSE:
Chords:
A  x02220 or 577655    D  xx0232 or x57775
A7 x02020 or 575655    Dm xx0231 or x57765

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


[repeat CHORUS]

[play: | A | A7 | D | Dm | C | G | Am | F E |]

[end on A]