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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jackie Shave
Violin
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Vocals
Martyn P. Casey
Bass
Mick Harvey
Guitar
Anna McGarrigle
Background Vocals
Lionel Handy
Cello
Leon Bosch
Bass
Blixa Bargeld
Guitar
Simon Fischer
Violin
Gustav Clarkson
Viola
Rebecca Hirsch
Violin
Conway Savage
Background Vocals
Gavyn Wright
Lead Violin
Paul Morgan
Bass
Naomi Wright
Cello
Patrick Kiernan
Violin
Bruce White
Viola
Warren Ellis
Violin
Kate McGarrirgle
Background Vocals
Frank Schaefer
Cello
Thomas Wydler
Drums
Jim Sclavunos
Percussion
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Nick Cave
Songwriter
Warren Ellis
Composer
Mick Harvey
String Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Mick Geyer
Producer
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Producer
Martyn P. Casey
Producer
Mick Harvey
Producer
Simon Heyworth
Recording Engineer
Blixa Bargeld
Producer
Mirek Stiles
Recording Engineer
Kevin Paul
Recording Engineer
Thomas Wydler
Producer
Tony Cohen
Producer
Mark Bishop
Recording Engineer
Lyrics
As 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
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
I stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
And 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
I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook
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
And 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 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
And I
Just got to say
That it grows darker with the day
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, below
Babe
It seems so long
Since you went away
And I
Just got to say
That it grows darker with the day
Writer(s): Warren Ellis, Nicholas Edward Cave
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