The Passion of the Christ movie - By The Rivers Dark lyrics

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Song by Leonard Cohen<br /><br>

By the rivers dark<br>

I wandered on.<br>

I lived my life<br>

In Babylon.<br>

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And I did forget<br>

My holy song:<br>

And I had no strength<br>

In Babylon.<br>

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By the rivers dark<br>

Where I could not see<br>

Who was waiting there<br>

Who was hunting me.<br>

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And he cut my lip<br>

And he cut my heart.<br>

So I could not drink<br>

From the river dark.<br>

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And he covered me,<br>

And I saw within,<br>

My lawless heart<br>

And my wedding ring,<br>

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I did not know<br>

And I could not see<br>

Who was waiting there,<br>

Who was hunting me.<br>

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By the rivers dark<br>

I panicked on.<br>

I belonged at last<br>

To Babylon.<br>

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Then he struck my heart<br>

With a deadly force,<br>

And he said, ‘This heart:<br>

It is not yours.’<br>

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And he gave the wind<br>

My wedding ring;<br>

And he circled us<br>

With everything.<br>

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By the rivers dark,<br>

In a wounded dawn,<br>

I live my life<br>

In Babylon.<br>

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Though I take my song<br>

From a withered limb,<br>

Both song and tree,<br>

They sing for him.<br>

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Be the truth unsaid<br>

And the blessing gone,<br>

If I forget<br>

My Babylon.<br>

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I did not know <br>

And I could not see<br>

Who was waiting there,<br>

Who was hunting me.<br>

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By the rivers dark, <br>

Where it all goes on;<br>

By the rivers dark<br>

In Babylon.<br>

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