Leonard Cohen - By The Rivers Dark
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, â??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.
2001 년 앨범 Ten New Songs 중에서.떠난지가 벌써 두해가 지나가네요.
선생님으로,시인으로.철학자로.마지막엔 가수로 삶을 살았던 레오너드 코헨.
1988년 앨범을 깃점으로 국내 방송에 자주 나왔던 곡들이 많죠.
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