(Philip Glass, Leonard Cohen - Babylon

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 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 me with everything by the rivers dark in a wounded dawn I live my life in Babylon tho’ I take my song from a withered limb both song and tree they sing for him be the truth unsaid and t