Hallelujah

[OpheliaBlue]

I like to do covers when I'm not feeling very creative. Here's a good one that Merck got me interested in when he told me it was by Rufus Wainwright. I arranged it for piano and attempted to sing it, even though I'm just getting over a cold. It's a gorgeous song. Hallelujah.mp3 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, Hallelu-uuu-ujah 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 Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-uuu-ujah 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? Remember when I moved in you? The holy dark was moving too And every breath we drew was hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-uuu-ujah Maybe there's a God above And all I ever learned from love Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you Its not a cry you can hear at night Its not somebody who's seen the light Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-uuu-ujah

[InTheMoment]

Absolutely splendid! Cold or not you have a damn sexy voice. ~

[Roller]

Hey I love it! Every now and then when I'm playing guitar I get a few words of song in my head and I start singing I try to write it down but I have yet to finish a song... just can't get it to work somehow. Alas, my net is too slow to download the mp3, but I love the song already! good job

[Merck]

That sounded really good. I think Jeff Buckley's version was in guitar. He did the guitar part really well for it, kind of gave it a slight haunting sound to it.

[OpheliaBlue]

Thanks guys. Oh shit you saif Jeff Buckley, I thought you said Rufus Wainwright. Well now I want to hear his version too. Eitherway, thanks Merck for interesting me in the song. What an inspiration!

[Alex D]

Aww, thats by far my favourite song ever written, you do it so much justice Your voice goes with it so well. *starts pimping this out to everone he knows*

[OpheliaBlue]

lol thanks Alex. You know I was thinking, part of the reason I think it goes so well with piano is because Rufus Wainwright intended for religion or God or "hallelujah" as a metaphor for love. When you find God, it's a broken Hallelujah as well, considering the juxtaposition of love and pain, saving and suffering, like Jesus or otherwise Saint types did. So if you consider the song as a religious metaphor, then it stands to reason that it should sound a bit like a hymn, and musically it does. Anyway, that was the sound I was going for, a hymn being played on a piano in a nice echoey church or something. That's just how I imagined what the original composer intended. Not to say it wouldn't also sound cool on guitar.

[nina]

pmed!!!! *goosebumps*

[OpheliaBlue]

Thanks nina, that means alot. You know it's so weird to me how many of y'all knew this song already. Only time I ever heard it was on Shrek. Heh, I thought it was written for the movie. I need to listen to more than opera from time to time. /geek

[CryoDragoon]

very nice i know the song already, and your one's much better i think ill keep it i would really like to play it on the piano, but i cant play the song with 1 hand...

[pinkcheese]

I know this is a bit late, but I just heard this today. I've always loved this song, you did a great job with it.