By The Rivers Dark Lyrics

By the river's 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 river's 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 river's 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 river's 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 river's dark where it all goes on
By the river's dark in Babylon

Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs

Oct 2001

1. In My Secret Life
2. A Thousand Kisses Deep
3. That Don't Make It Junk
4. Here It Is
5. Love Itself
6. By The Rivers Dark
7. Alexandra Leaving
8. You Have Loved Enough
9. Boogie Street
10. The Land Of Plenty