By The Rivers Dark
- Leonard Cohen (2001)You are listening to the song By The Rivers Dark by Leonard Cohen, writer by Leonard Cohen;Sharon Robinson in album Ten New Songs. The highest quality of audio that you can download is flac . Also, you can play quality at 32kbps, view lyrics and watch more videos related to this song.
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Lyrics
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 at 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.
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