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.