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 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 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 was hunting me

By the rivers dark, where it all goes on

By the rivers dark, in Babylon (I have been delivered)