Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

Nu har jag gjort en spellista på Spotify med originalversionen av Hallelujah och de covers som finns på Spotify. Min favorit är nog Jeff Buckleys eller är det måhända Rufus Wainwrights version? Vilken är din?
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Låten Hallelujah spelades in av Cohen 1984. Mer information om låten hittar du på Wikipedia.
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Hallelujah
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 thisThe 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

Baby I have 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 really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I 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
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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3 kommentarer:

Anders Utbult sa...

Min favorit är Regina Spektors från Jewish Heritage Festival 05. Jag slängde upp den här om du vill lyssna: http://www.sendspace.com/file/tmdxiv Hon gjorde "Chelsea Hotel #2" där också.

Dodge MOKB har även gjort en rejäl sammanställning här:
http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2008/02/mokb-covers-project-hallelujah-repost.html

Det ska också finnas en sammanställning någonstans av alla olika varianter och verser som Cohen brukade sjunga (Buckleys verser är en cover på en utav dessa live-versioner).

Alexandra Einerstam sa...

Wow! Tack Utbult...

Anonym sa...

Min favorit är den med
Bon Jovi ;)
Den spelade dom när jag o Linda var i London för invigningen av U2arenan!

Kram Lisa