Hallelujah - is it really about Orgasms?

[jollygreen]

Discuss. I'm not sure I believe the rumour:

i heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord
but you don't really care for music, do you
well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

hallelujah...

well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

hallelujah...

baby i've been here before
i've seen this room and i've walked this floor
i used to live alone before i knew you
i've seen your flag on the marble arch
but love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

well, maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...

Edited by jollygreen on Monday 15th December 13:00

[jollygreen]

okgo said:

I believe Buckley titled the song some like Hallelujah of orgasm or something.. So he obviously thought so..

There is a big facebook thing to get his version to number 1.. So much so that its re-entered the charts Far better than the x-factor trash..

Actually, it's a Leonard Cohen song - he wrote the original 15 verses! Buckley trimmed it down and changed it a bit but his version is probably still best known.

Can't remember the name of the guy that did the one in shrek but it wasn't Buckley...

[jollygreen]

TonyHetherington said:

jollygreen said:

Can't remember the name of the guy that did the one in shrek but it wasn't Buckley...

Rufus Wainright.

Flipping fantastic version of the song. Unlike Alexandra's.

Indeed.

Actually, funnily enough, I was reading an evo last night - was that you in the Exige owners guide?

[jollygreen]

TonyHetherington said:

jollygreen said:

was that you in the Exige owners guide?

That's me

Beautiful car. Bad shades!

[jollygreen]

Funk said:

Leonard Cohen's version sounds appalling. Like a piss-take.

It's not a "version", it's the original!

Still crap though...

[jollygreen]

Chris71 said:

So... does everbody else actually like this song (in one of it's many forms)?

For the record, my favourite was the one on Shrek.

I do actually. But I'm guaranteed not to to like the feck factor version.

Because I'm an auratorical snob. Oh yes.

[jollygreen]

tank slapper said:

I just heard the X factor one on the radio. Awful cover - too much over the top embelishment and belting it out, complete with cheesy key change.

I just heard it for the first time too - what a load of cock!