Fun Facts:
1) This song was composed by Leonard Cohen but has been covered by many major artists.
2) Cohen originally wrote about eighty verses for this song before eventually choosing verses that would lead the song from invoking religious ideas to being fairly secular.
3) The first verse of the song refers to the biblical story of David and Saul: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him" (1 Samuel 16:23).
"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, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, 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 when 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
Maybe there?s a God above
But all I?ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.
It?s not a cry you can hear at night,
It?s not somebody who has seen the light,
It?s a cold and it?s a broken 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"