By the Rivers Dark

Intro: Fm | Eb | Fm 
       Dbmaj7 | Eb | Fm
 
Fm
By the rivers dark
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I wandered on
Dbmaj7
I lived my life
Eb Fm
In Babylon

And I did forget
My holy song:
And I had no strength
In Babylon

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By the rivers dark
             Fm
Where I could not see
Db           Eb
Who was waiting there
           Fm
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 belong at last
To Babylon

Then he struck my heart
With a deadly force
And he said, "This heart:
It is not yours"

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And he gave the wind
Fm
My wedding ring
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And he circled us
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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