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Hallelujah Lyrics – Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Cohen Hallelujah Lyrics in English

    Hallelujah is a popular song by Leonard Cohen from the 1984 album Various Positions. It is part of Rollingstone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Check words to Leonard Cohen Hallelujah Lyrics in English below.

    Hallelujah Lyrics – Leonard Cohen 

    [Verse 1]
    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 ya?
    It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
    The minor fall, the major lift
    The baffled king composing “Hallelujah”

    [Chorus]
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    [Verse 2]
    Your faith was strong but you needed proof
    You saw her bathing on the roof
    Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew ya
    She tied you to a kitchen chair
    She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

    [Chorus]
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    [Verse 3]
    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 ya?
    There’s a blaze of light in every word
    It doesn’t matter which you heard
    The holy or the broken Hallelujah

    [Chorus]
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    [Verse 4]
    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 ya
    And even though it all went wrong
    I’ll stand before the lord of song
    With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah

    [Chorus]
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    [Outro]
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah

    [Additional Lyrics]
    Baby, I’ve been here before
    I know this room, I’ve walked this floor
    I used to live alone before I knew you
    And 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

    [Additional Lyrics]
    There was a time you let me know
    What’s really going on below
    But now you never show it to me, do you?
    And remember when I moved in you
    The holy dove was moving too
    And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

    [Additional Lyrics]
    Maybe there’s a God above
    But all I’ve ever learned from love
    Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
    And 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

     

    Writer(s): Leonard Cohen

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