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By The Rivers Dark
Cohen, Leonhard
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By the rivers dark
I wandered on
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I lived my life
In Babylon
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And I did forget
My holy song
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And I had no strength
In Babylon
By the rivers dark
Where I could not see
Who was waiting there
Who was hunting me
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And he cut my lip
And he cut my heart
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So I could not drink
From the river dark
And he covered me
And I saw within
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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
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I belonged at last
To Babylon
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Then he struck my heart
With a deadly force
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And he said: "This heart
It is not yours!"
And he gave the wind
My wedding ring
And he circled us
With everything
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By the rivers dark
In a wounded dawn
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I live my life
In Babylon
Though I take my song
From a withered limb
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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
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By the rivers dark
In Babylon
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