By The Rivers Dark

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.