Hallelujah
I have heard that there was a secret chord,
David was playing and he liked the Lord,
But you really do not care about the music, right?
Goes like this:
The fourth, fifth,
The lower than low, as it rises,
The king puzzled composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but needed evidence,
Saw her bathing on the roof,
Its beauty and the full moon you disarmed.
She tied
to the chair of the kitchen,
Broke your throne and cut your hair,
And from your lips drew the Hallelujah.
Baby, I've been here before
I know this room, I walked on this floor,
I used to live alone before meeting you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch,
Love is not a march of Victoria,
It is a cold and broken Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
There was a time to let me know
What was real and what was happening behind,
But now I never samples, right?
And remember when I was in you,
The gull was installed too sacred,
And every breath we draw that was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
And do not even know the name.
But if I did, well, what is right for you?
There is a spark of light
on each floor,
No matter what you listen,
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
I did the best I could, it was not much.
I could not feel, so I try to play.
I told the truth, I came not to deceive.
And despite everything that went wrong,
Will be in front of the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
This sublime song of Leonard Cohen has the best possible version in the voice of the ill-fated Jeff Buckley ( "Grace" is one of the greatest albums of the 90s). Others such as John Cale and Rufus Wainwright also have interpreted, but the son of Tim made the 'cover' final.