Darker with the Day

I wanted to tell my interpretation of this song, because this is one of my favorite Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds songs.

To me the first verse tells how he has lost his wife and how he is now thinking about doing a suicide.

"I thought I'd take a final walk" "I was looking for an end to this, for some kind of closure"

He is even thinking about his dead friends. Maybe cos he think that he is going to see them again soon.

"I thought of my friends who had died of exposure And I remembered other ones who had died from the lack of it"

Then he goes to church with his dog following him.

"I stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd And love followed just behind me, panting at my feet"

He is trying to find help from God, but only finds those pictures.

"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"

I think he now does a suicide because he did not found the God. Next verse tells how he now walks on earth as a ghost.

"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" "I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds"

As a ghost he sees that horrible day when his wife dies. He sees his wife in her garden and how there is somekind of fire. Nobody is not noticing the fire and just talks to their phones.

"I passed by your garden, saw you with your flowers" "I smell smoke, see little fires bursting on the lawns" "People carry on regardless, listening to their hands"

Last verse tells how he lives as a ghost and sees how his father suffers becouse he did a suiside. His father is probably sitting in front of his grave.

"I come and go" "My father sits slumped in the deepening snow"

The reason why I think the song tells about suicide is because, about 8 years ago I read a philosophical article about suiside. In that article there was all this talk how those who does suiside have to walk as a ghosts and see all the pain they caused to their love ones.