By the Rivers Dark

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By the rivers dark

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I wandered on

I lived my life

D# Fm

In Babylon

 

And I did forget

My holy song:

And I had no strength

In Babylon

 

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By the rivers dark

Fm

Where I could not see

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Who was waiting there

Fm

Who was hunting me

 

And he cut my lip

And he cut my heart

So I could not drink

From the rivers 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 belong at last

To Babylon

 

Then he struck my heart

With a deadly force

And he said, "This heart:

It is not yours"

 

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And he gave the wind

My wedding ring

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And he circled us

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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