By The Rivers Dark

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