Hallelujah Various Positions -- 1984 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! 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 a kitchen chair she broke your throne, she cut your hair, and from your lips she drew the 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! 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! Copyright © Leonard Cohen and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved. <<<Previous Next>>> Songs Home