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By the river's dark, I wandered on |
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I lived my life in Babylon |
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And I did forget my holy song |
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And I had no strength in Babylon |
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By the river's dark, where I could not see |
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Who was waiting there, who was hunting me? |
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And he cut my lip and he cut my heart |
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So I could not drink from the river dark |
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And he covered me and I saw within |
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My lawless heart and my wedding ring |
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I did not know and I could not see |
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Who was waiting there, who was hunting me? |
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By the river's dark, I panicked on |
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I belonged at last to Babylon |
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Then he struck my heart with a deadly force |
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And he said, "This heart, it is not yours" |
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And he gave the wind, my wedding ring |
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And he circled us with everything |
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By the river's dark in a wounded dawn |
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I live my life in Babylon |
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Though I take my song from a withered limb |
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Both song and tree they sing for him |
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Be the truth unsaid and the blessing gone |
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If I forget my Babylon |
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I did not know and I could not see |
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Who was waiting there, who was hunting me? |
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By the river's dark where it all goes on |
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By the river's dark in Babylon |