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 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 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 Who was hunting me ♪ By the rivers dark Where it all goes on By the rivers dark In Babylon