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I heard there was a secret chord/that David played, that 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
A baffled king composing Hallelujahs
Your faith was strong, 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 cut your hair
And from your lips she drew a hallelujah
You say I took the Name in vain/Well, I don't even know the name
And 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
I did my best, it wasn't much/I couldn't feel so I tried to touch
I tell 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, Leonard Cohen.
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth/the minor fall, the major lift
A baffled king composing Hallelujahs
Your faith was strong, 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 cut your hair
And from your lips she drew a hallelujah
You say I took the Name in vain/Well, I don't even know the name
And 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
I did my best, it wasn't much/I couldn't feel so I tried to touch
I tell 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, Leonard Cohen.