hallelujah
originally by leonard cohen
This is one of the most covered songs. And I gotta say, I love most of them.
Leonard Cohen - original
(does anybody else think his voice is creepy? makes me wanna clean my room so i can hide under the bed. i can't decide if it’s the off-keyageness that’s throwing me, or the speak/singing)
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
hallelujah, hallelujah
hallelujah, hallelujah
you say 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…
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You might need to take a break between renditions, or may get hallelujahed out.
I didn’t while I was finding all the links, but I’m rather odd.
A lot of the versions have slight variations of lyrics, and my ass is too lazy to look up lyrics for every single version
Sorry (and by “sorry” I actually mean “tough”)
Jeff Buckley - most well known cover
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