Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord,
but you don’t really care for music, do you?
Well, it goes like this:
the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major life,
the baffled king composing Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

Well your faith was strong but you needed proff.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overhtough you.
She tied you to the kitchen chair,
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

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

There was a time when you let me know,
what’s really going on below,
but now you never show that to me do you.
But I remember when I moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too,
and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

Well maybe there’s a God above,
but all I’ve ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.
It’s not a cry that you hear at night,
it’s not somebody who’s seen the light,
it’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

Grace, Jeff Buckley. 1994.

Various Positions, Leonard Cohen. 1984.