☯ HALLELUJAH: 12 covers, history, lirics, amazing facts

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Hallelujah is called the most misunderstood song of all time. Everyone has their own Hallelujah. Everyone there is looking for the meaning that is closer to him: biblical or secular. Fortunately, there are plenty to choose from - the original text is 15 pages long and consists of 80 verses. It was only later that Leonard Cohen chose only 4 of them.

The text of "Hallelujah" in the original version, published in 1984, is full of references to biblical stories: to the story of Samson and his betrayal by Delilah ("... she cut off your hair"), as well as to the unfaithful King David and his wife Bathsheba ("Did you see as she bathed on the roof, her beauty and moonlight stunned you").

However, then Cohen tried to move away from a purely biblical interpretation. In 1984, he rewrote the lyrics and made the song more secular. References to the Bible, although they remained, became more distant. He admitted that he "wanted to point out that Hallelujah can manifest itself in things that have nothing to do with religion."

Did this piece of music turn out to be too difficult to understand and to perceive? Maybe. In 1984, the song was released on the album "Various Positions". Then Cohen's record company called the album a "disaster", "Hallelujah" never became a single. Rolling Stone magazine didn't even mention the song in its review.

Musician John Cale compared the history of Hallelujah's song to a "lingering snowball effect". The author of the composition Leonard Cohen, having performed his creation, did not impress the public. But his “snowball”, rolling down the mountain, began to acquire cover versions that conquered numerous charts and, in the words of the same Cale, turned Hallelujah into “one of the most beloved, most performed and most misunderstood compositions of all time.”
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Baby I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
Yeah, I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But listen love, love is not some kind of victory march
No it's cold and it's ever a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There was a time when you'd let me know
What's really going on below
Oh but now you never show it to me, do ya?
Oh but I remember yeah, when I moved in you
And the holy dove she was moving too
Yes and every single breath that went through us, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above
As for me all I ever seemed to learn from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight
It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light
No it's cold and it's ever a lonely Hallalujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel so I learned to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come all this way to fool you
Yeah and even though it all went wrong
I'll stand right here before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Leo Robin / Pete King / Vincent Youmans / Clifford Grey
Hallelujah lyrics © Leo Robin Music Co
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