So with that, I thought I'd take a final walk   The tide of public opinion had started to abate   The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk   I could see their frightened faces   Peering at me through the gate      I was looking for an end to this, for some kind of closure   Time moved so rapidly, I had no hope of keeping track of it   And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure   And I remembered other ones who had died from the lack of it      And in my best shoes, I started falling forward down the street   Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd   Love followed just behind me, panting at my feet   As the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud      Inside I sat, seeking the presence of a God   I searched through the pictures in a leather bound book   And I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood   And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook      And babe   It seems so long   Since you've been gone, away   And I   Just got to say   That it grows darker with the day      Back on the street, I saw a great big smiling sun   It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new   It seemed to me that most destruction was being done   By those who could not choose between the two      Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones   The streets groan with little Caesars, Napoleons and cunts   With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones   Counting on their fingers, with a crumbs down their fronts      I passed by your garden, saw you with your flowers   The Camellias, Magnolias and Azaleas so sweet   And I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds   You looked so beautiful in the rising heat      I smell smoke, see little fires bursting on the lawns   People carry on regardless, listening to their hands   Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns   Bored and disgusted, to do us down      Babe   It seems so long   Since you've been gone, you went away   And I   Just got to say   That it grows darker with the day      All these streets are frozen now, I come and go   Full of a longing for something I do not know   My father sits slumped in the deepening snow   As I search, in and out, above, about and below      It seems so long   Since you've been gone and you went away   And I   Opened and pray   That it grows darker with the day