By the River

• 專輯：Ultimate Piano Classics
• 發行：2011-02-24
• 演唱：Ultimate Piano Classics

作詞：不詳 作曲：不詳

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.