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.