[ti:]By The Rivers Dark
[ar:]Leonard Cohen
[al:]
By the rivers dark
Lonard Cohen

By the rivers dark
I wandered on.
I lived my life
in Babylon.

And I did forget
My holy song:
And I had no strength
In Babylon.

By the rivers dark
Where I could not see
Who was waiting there
Who was hunting me.

And he cut my lip
And he cut my heart.
So I could not drink
From the river dark.

And he covered me
And I saw within,
My lawless heart
And my wedding ring,
I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me

By the rivers dark
I panicked on.

I belonged the last
To Babylon.

Then he struck my heart
With a deadly force,
And he said This heart
It is not yours

And he gave the wind.
My wedding ring:
And he circled us
With everything

By the rivers dark
In a wounded dawn
I live my life
In Babylon.

Though I take my song
From a withered limb,
Both song and tree,
They sing for him.

Be the truth unsaid
And the blessing gone,
If I forget
My Babylon.

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there.
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark,
Where it all goes on:
By the rivers dark
In Babylon.