Hallelujah

by BurnTheShips 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips

    "Hallelujah"

    Now I've heard there was a secret chord
    That David played, and it pleased the Lord
    But you don't really care for music, do you?
    It goes like this
    The fourth, the fifth
    The minor fall, the major lift
    The baffled king composing Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah

    Your faith was strong but you needed proof
    You saw her bathing on the roof
    Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
    She tied you
    To a kitchen chair
    She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

    Baby I have been here before
    I know this room, I've walked this floor
    I used to live alone before I knew you.
    I've seen your flag on the marble arch
    Love is not a victory march
    It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    There was a time you let me know
    What's really going on below
    But now you never show it to me, do you?
    And remember when I moved in you
    The holy dove was moving too
    And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    You say I took the name in vain
    I don't even know the name
    But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
    There's a blaze of light
    In every word
    It doesn't matter which you heard
    The holy or the broken Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    I did my best, it wasn't much
    I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
    I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
    And even though
    It all went wrong
    I'll stand before the Lord of Song
    With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UFRQZatJT0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Yes, Amen!

    Love it!!!

    Sylvia

  • Borgia
    Borgia

    I very much like this song. Especially this strophe:

    There was a time you let me know
    What's really going on below
    But now you never show it to me, do you?
    And remember when I moved in you
    The holy dove was moving too
    And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

    .... dirty mind is joy forever ....

    Cheers

    Borgia

  • DaCheech
    DaCheech

    fist time I got into the song was when watching the movie "watchmen"

  • designs
    designs

    In the early 70s I dated a sister and one evening I quoted Leonard Cohen to her and well that was that, you either get Leonard Cohen or you don't.

    Beautiful........and poignant, thanks.

  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips

    .... dirty mind is joy forever ....

    Theres more than a little double entendre in that piece.

    BTS-just loves recursion.

  • SixofNine
  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips

    This would probably sound better with Blue Chamay.

    If I ever try my hand at brewing some of my own Trappist, I'll send you a big bottle.

    BTS

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    everything sounds better with Blue Chamay ;)

    I'll take you up on that!

  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips
    I'll take you up on that!

    I've got a perfect label for it also, 6of9, since we love double meanings and all that. :-)

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