various versions of hallelujah
various versions of hallelujah
Hello there,
did jeff buckley write his version of hallelujah or did LC also write this one?
thanks
did jeff buckley write his version of hallelujah or did LC also write this one?
thanks
Outside I sit on the stone steps
With nothing much to do
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
By the absence of you
Brompton Oratory - Nick Cave
With nothing much to do
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
By the absence of you
Brompton Oratory - Nick Cave
Well, any way it's done is practically marvelous.
Cause I am working on my own version, yeah, me too.
I'm going to sing it at church. I haven't been there in awhile and was thinking it would be a good way to get out there and open the old folks or folkies up a bit. Ahhh, it'll probably go right over their heads. And I'll tell 'em that so they'll pay close attention. Of course, I will credit Leonard with the song, so as to out run the blame and all. Christ sakes, it is a song about God. Or will they... disagree.
Cause I am working on my own version, yeah, me too.
I'm going to sing it at church. I haven't been there in awhile and was thinking it would be a good way to get out there and open the old folks or folkies up a bit. Ahhh, it'll probably go right over their heads. And I'll tell 'em that so they'll pay close attention. Of course, I will credit Leonard with the song, so as to out run the blame and all. Christ sakes, it is a song about God. Or will they... disagree.
Hello Lizzytysh,
It’s not that sex and God don’t go together…It’s that they go together only within certain parameters and only when there is accountability. Leonard’s Cohen’s use of the story of David and Bath-sheba in “Hallelujah” reveals his usual muddle-headed ideas about sex and spirituality. There wasn’t any “Holy Dove moving” in that sexual encounter.
It’s not that sex and God don’t go together…It’s that they go together only within certain parameters and only when there is accountability. Leonard’s Cohen’s use of the story of David and Bath-sheba in “Hallelujah” reveals his usual muddle-headed ideas about sex and spirituality. There wasn’t any “Holy Dove moving” in that sexual encounter.
Lizzy,
I also don't discount the emotive power of this song in the listener. But that is primarily due to the ambiguity of his lyrics (where the lyrics aren't ambiguous he's just plain wrong).
For instance, the lines:
"all I ever seemed to learn from love
was how to shoot at someone
who outdrew you"
to me are about God and St. Augustine couldn't have said it any better. But to someone else they may mean something entirely different. That's both his strength and weakness as a songwriter.
I also don't discount the emotive power of this song in the listener. But that is primarily due to the ambiguity of his lyrics (where the lyrics aren't ambiguous he's just plain wrong).
For instance, the lines:
"all I ever seemed to learn from love
was how to shoot at someone
who outdrew you"
to me are about God and St. Augustine couldn't have said it any better. But to someone else they may mean something entirely different. That's both his strength and weakness as a songwriter.