מילים לשיר By The Rivers Dark – Leonard Cohen

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.