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Love Song Lyrics – Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright (Leonard Cohen cover)
Category: Love Lost
Hallelujah – Rufus Wainwright
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 in the moonlight overthrew you;
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
She broke your throne, she cut your hair,
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe I’ve 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 real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you,
The Holy Dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe there’s a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you;
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Song/Lyrics Notes: This song is found on Shrek – Music from the Original Motion Picture album. What it Means to Me: This is quite possibly my favorite song. Hallelujah is a cover of a Leonard Cohen song, although the lyrics are adjusted. References are made to the story of King David of the Bible (he impregnated Bathsheba, who was married, and who he found bathing on a roof; when his plans to get her husband back in time to cover up the fact that he was the father, he has him killed; the cover-up led to David’s undoing in the end). The lines that touch me most are: “All I ever learned from love/was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you”, and, “Remember when I moved in you?/the Holy Dark was moving too/and every breath we drew was Hallelujah”, which is a reference to sexual intimacy as ecstatic (Pluto in astrology). Here, themes include the breaking of vows, transformation through love.
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