F Am Hallelujah, Hallelujah F C G C G Hallelujah, Hallelujah C Am Maybe I have been here before, C Am I know this room, I've walked this floor, F G C G I used to live alone before I knew you C | F G | She tied you to a kitchen chair, Am F She broke your throne, she cut your hair, G E/G# Am And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.
F G C G Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you C | F G | F Am Hallelujah, Hallelujah F C G C G Hallelujah, Hallelujah C Am Your faith was strong but you needed proof, C Am You saw her bathing on the roof.
It goes like this, The fourth, the fifth, Am F The minor fall, the major lift, G E/G# Am The baffled king composing Hallelujah. Many of us ask ourselves what the meaning of Hallelujah is, but probably every thesis is wrong and right at the same time, since music is subjective and everyone can attribute different meanings to it.DO NOT SHOW ADS C Am I've heard there was a secret chord C Am That David played, and it pleased the Lord F G C G But you don't really care for music, do you? C | F G | So no love, no eros or praise for music, but a huge hug to every situation that life offers us. It’s a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion.” The song explains that many kinds of hallelujahs do exist, and all the perfect and broken hallelujahs have equal value. But there are moments when we can… reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah’.
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“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled.
Regarding the meaning of the song, Leonard Cohen said: There are those who see the end of a love story in these metaphors and those who think it’s a praise for music. The following verses always continue through religious metaphors, but the meaning remains unclear. In fact, he became the lover of Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite, committing adultery. “The baffled king composing hallelujah.” David is always the protagonist of this phrase and his perplexity comes from the fact that, despite being chosen by the Lord, he could not help but follow his own human nature. The lyrics start with David, king of Israel, who, by playing the harp, can calm the evil soul of Saul, his predecessor. In the lyrics there is first of all the sex-religion dualism, two topics often present in many other songs of the Canadian. But Cohen, as he revealed in an interview, took his little revenge thanks to one of the songs belonging to that album: Hallelujah. This is how Leonard Cohen made his way in the world of music at the age of 33: it was 1967 and the album was called Songs of Leonard Cohen.īefore Various Positions, other records followed: Songs from a room, Songs of love and hate, Recent songs, all full of sin and redemption, sex and holiness.Īlthough Various Positions had true milestones in the Canadian singer-songwriter’s discography, the producers were quite skeptical, that’s why it was released later in USA. A simple but deep voice, classical guitar arpeggios and above them stories of platonic and non-platonic love ( Suzanne), goodbyes ( So Long Marianne, Hey that’s no way to say goodbye), tales of a claustrophobic world on the verge of an apocalypse ( Stories of Streets) and damned souls in search of redemption. Leonard Cohen was one of the greatest songwriters (even if in this case the term is an understatement) that last century gave us.īorn in Canada to a Jewish family in the 1930s, he then moved to Hydra, where in the first half of the 1960s he wrote and published several novels and collections of poetry.