Top 100 - 100/99 -Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen -1984)

Si le grand public est tombé sur le cul en découvrant la magnifique version de  Jeff Buckley paru en 1994 sur l'album 'grace ' et si d'autres  l'ont  également découvert en 2001  sur la bande originale de " Shrek " interprétée cette fois  par Rufus Wainwright rien pourtant ne rivalise avec  le titre original enregistré par Leonard Cohen sur l'album  "various positions". en 1984

Au milieu des années 1980 Le canadien a offert l'une de ses plus grandes chansons. Une grande quantité outre les deux artistes cités plus haut ont enregistrée leur version de cette chanson sublime ,on retiendra  les versions de John Cale   , RegIna Spektor  ou encore K D Lang

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paroles

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 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 and the moonlight overthrew her
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
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

 

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah