By the Rivers Dark
Leonard Cohen & Sharon Robinson * Track #6 On Ten New Songs
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- #3That Don’t Make It Junk
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- #4Here It Is
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- #5Love Itself
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- #6By the Rivers Dark
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- #7Alexandra Leaving
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- #8You Have Loved Enough
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- #10The Land of Plenty
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- #11A Thousand Kisses Deep (spoken word)
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By the Rivers Dark by Leonard Cohen (Ft. Sharon Robinson)
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Sharon RobinsonBy the Rivers Dark Lyrics
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 rivers 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
By the Rivers Dark Q&A
Who wrote By the Rivers Dark's ?
By the Rivers Dark was written by Sharon Robinson & Leonard Cohen.
Who produced By the Rivers Dark's ?
By the Rivers Dark was produced by Sharon Robinson.
When did Leonard Cohen release By the Rivers Dark?
Leonard Cohen released By the Rivers Dark on Tue Oct 09 2001.
What did Leonard Cohen say about "By the Rivers Dark"?
This is a reference to the Book of Psalms (Psalm 137): the children of Israel are in exile, their captors asked them to sing, but they refuse because they can not celebrate sacred songs in a foreign land. In the Psalm it is said: ‘If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my arm fall, my tongue cleave to m...