Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah Lyrics

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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'd 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.

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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.

And 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.

[HALLELUJAH [1] ]

[Written by: Leonard Cohen-1984]

[Performed by: Rufus Wainwright [2] ]

[Appears on: Shrek (Soundtrack)-2001* [3] The L Word (TV Series)-2004 &

Want Two-2005 & The Saturday Sessions: The Dermot O'Leary Show-2007*.

(*Compilation of various artists.)]

[1] Regarding the song's melody Rufus Wainwright has commented that "It's

An easy song to sing. The music never pummels the words. The melody is

Almost liturgical and conjures up religious feelings. It's purifying."

During the lyrics "the fourth the fifth the minor fall the major lift"

The chords move as described: F ("the fourth") G ("the fifth") Am ("the

Minor fall") and F ("the major lift").]

[2] Originally released by Leonard Cohen on his 1984 studio album Various

Positions. A live recording of the song from 1988 appears on the 1994

Album Cohen Live. "Hallelujah" has experienced great popularity and has

Now been recorded more than 170 times.]

COVERS FOR RELEASE: John Cale Jeff Buckley The New Guitar Buddies (aka:

Norwegian artists Alejandro Fuentes Askil Holm Espen Lind and Kurt

Nilsen) Damien Rice Jack L and many others.]

COVERS FROM MOVIES: John Cale in the 1996 film Basquiat as well as in the

2001 animated film Shrek (Rufus Wainwright's version of the song appears

On that film's soundtrack album rather than Cale's) St. Ralph Deliver Us

From Evil Kissed by Winter Feast of Love Barfuss Lord of War & When

Night is Falling. Additionally in 1994 Cale's cover was used for the

Closing of The Stuff a short film about John Frusciante by Johnny Depp and

Gibby Haynes.]

COVERS FROM TV: American Idol contestant Jason Castro (on American Idol

Season 7) Sheryl Crow (on Live and Unplugged) Holby City House Falcon

Beach The L Word The O.C. (twice by Jeff Buckley once by Imogen Heap)

Hollyoaks The West Wing Scrubs Third watch & Without a Trace (dealing

With events of 9/11) Cold Case Criminal Minds ER The Shield Nip/Tuck

Crossing Jordan Drama and Nicole Rescue Me LAX Roswell Ugly Betty

Numb3rs Nearly Famous and One Tree Hill.]

OTHER SPECIAL TRIBUTES: Alistair Griffin rewrote the lyrics to reference

The soccer player Mark Viduka. (Leonard Cohen gave permission for this to

Be released as a charity download in support of The MacMillan Cancer

Fund)-2007. After the shooting massacre at NIU the song was covered by

Christina Marie during a montage of YouTube users' responses to the

Massacre. On the September 29 2008 broadcast of Late Show with David

Letterman the song was played over a farewell montage for actor Paul

Newman who had died three days earlier.]

[3] Transcribed from the track on this album.]

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