The Secret Chord

ט' בתשרי תש"ע
Blodlessing 10

In follow-up to earlier entries (Heikhalot, The Nine-Tenths Gate and Shabbat Proclamation - Time Is Gold), my facebook friend Jacek OSTROWSKI shared this treasure with me:



Gathered from the web, the full and complete lyrics to a perfectly imperfect song, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen:

[[ 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.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, 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, and she cut your hair,
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, 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.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah ]]

Baby, I've been here before.
I know this room, I walk 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 a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah ... {Hallelujah}

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below.
Ah, but now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you,
The holy dove, she was moving too,
Yes, and every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above,
As for me, all I ever seem 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's claims to have seen the light,
No, it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
but 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