Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah

Слова песни - Lirics:

I've heard there was a secret chord(струна)

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 (сбитый с толку) King composing

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew (поражать) you.

She tied you to a kitchen chair

She broke your throne

She cut your hair

And from your lips she drew

the Hallelujah

Maybe 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

There was a time you 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

Maybe there's a God above

And all I ever learned from love

Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew (привлекать больше внимания, чем) 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 

Интересные факты о песне - Songfacts:

Песня из фильма "Комната с видом"

"The song was originally written and recorded by Leonard Cohen in 1984 on his album Various Positions. It was featured in several episodes of the Fox TV show The O.C. several years after Buckley drowned in the Mississippi River.

The song is about love which has soured and gone stale. Cohen used a lot of religious imagery, including references to some of the more notorious women in the bible. Here's some lyrical analysis:

"You saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you" - Bathsheba, who tempted the king to kill her husband so he could have her.

"She tied you to her kitchen chair, she broke your throne and she cut your hair" - Delilah, who cut off Sampson's locks that held his superhuman strength.

"But remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too" - This could be a reference to the divine conception and Mary.

Cohen: "Hallelujah is a Hebrew word which means 'Glory to the Lord.' The song explains that many kinds of Hallelujahs do exist. I say: All the perfect and broken Hallelujahs have an equal value. It's a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion."