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LEONARD COHEN lyrics : "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, â??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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