Skip's House of Chaos: TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainwright

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

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?

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall,

the major lift, the baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof,

you saw her bathing on the roof,

her beauty in 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

Hallelujah

Maybe I have been here before,

I know this room; I have walked this floor,

I used to live alone before I knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch,

love is not a victory march,

it's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know

whats really going on below,

but now you never show it to me, do you? (and)

Remember when I moved in you;

the holy dark was moving too,

and every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above,

and all I ever learned from love

was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

And it's not a cry you can hear at night,

it's not somebody who's seen the light,

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

Hallelujah