Lyrics By the Rivers Dark.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshljloa]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Ten New Songs]
[ti: By the Rivers Dark]
[length: 05:21]
[00:26.98]By the rivers dark
[00:29.52]I wandered on
[00:32.12]
[00:36.23]I lived my life
[00:39.44]In Babylon
[00:45.04]And I did forget
[00:47.70]My holy song
[00:51.09]
[00:54.60]And I had no strength
[00:58.00]In Babylon
[01:01.55]
[01:03.76]By the rivers dark
[01:05.96]Where I could not see
[01:09.12]
[01:12.63]Who was waiting there
[01:15.14]Who was hunting me
[01:17.97]
[01:21.74]And he cut my lip
[01:24.22]And he cut my heart
[01:27.81]
[01:31.07]So I could not drink
[01:34.49]From the river dark
[01:39.80]And he covered me
[01:42.34]And I saw within
[01:45.94]
[01:49.11]My lawless heart
[01:52.78]And my wedding ring
[01:58.66]I did not know
[02:00.77]And I could not see
[02:03.89]
[02:07.77]Who was waiting there
[02:09.83]Who was hunting me
[02:13.07]
[02:16.50]By the rivers dark
[02:18.74]I panicked on
[02:22.26]
[02:25.70]I belonged at last
[02:29.03]To Babylon
[02:34.93]Then he struck my heart
[02:37.04]With a deadly force
[02:40.65]
[02:44.14]And he said: “This heart
[02:47.31]It is not yours!”
[02:52.06]And he gave the wind
[02:57.68]My wedding ring
[03:01.27]And he circled us
[03:06.00]With everything
[03:11.40]
[03:13.87]By the rivers dark
[03:16.06]In a wounded dawn
[03:19.54]
[03:23.38]I live my life
[03:26.15]In Babylon
[03:32.32]Though I take my song
[03:34.32]From a withered limb
[03:38.77]
[03:41.29]Both song and tree
[03:44.58]They sing for him
[03:50.54]Be the truth unsaid
[03:52.67]And the blessing gone
[03:56.63]
[03:59.36]If I forget
[04:03.04]My Babylon
[04:08.71]I did not know
[04:10.87]And I could not see
[04:17.51]Who was waiting there
[04:20.18]Who was hunting me
[04:24.06]
[04:26.84]By the rivers dark
[04:29.48]Where it all goes on
[04:36.22]By the rivers dark
[04:39.24]In Babylon
[04:42.61]Year of Release: 1992