Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (live from the Bataclan) lyrics

(L. Cohen)

Originally contained in Leonard Cohen's Various Positions

Hallelujah

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, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya

And 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, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well, maybe I've been here before

I've seen this room and I've walked this floor

I used to live with Leonard before I knew ya

And he's seen your flag on the marble arch

But love is not a victory march

Says it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know

What's really going on below

But now you never show that to me do ya

Well remember when I moved in you

And the holy dove was moving too

And every breath you drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well maybe there's a God above

But all I've ever learned from love

Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya

Well 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, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Halle...

It's not what you're told

It's not her face

It's not his touch

In the room you both share

When he's gone when he left

When your time and your memory fills your dreams

When you're honest and together

Together no more

No more

Hallelujah, until you're nothing

Hallelujah, baby, until she's everywhere

Hallelujah, until together you are somewhere I'd lost

Hallelujah, Hallelujah.