Hallelujah...

I really like this song.

REALLY like this song.  (Trying to get past saying "love" to everything, you know?)

Anyways, my son will ask me to sing him a "sweet song" to help him go to sleep, and this is what I sing.

And I'm going to be specific here:  I only sing the first verse to him. 

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

I wanted to make that clear so that you don't think I'm singing about some weird sexualized stuff to my kid--because the rest of the song is freakin' weird.

Where was I?

Ah, yes--first verse of the song.


He loves it.

"Mom, you have the most beautiful voice in the whole world," he says.

We've really got to introduce him to some culture, you know?


Anyways, despite the fact that there's a line in there about how "she tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair," (weird, eh?), it's still one of my all-time favorite songs.

My favorite line:

"And it's not a cry you can hear at night; it's not someone who has seen the light; it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."


And I'm rather picky about the versions out there.

Some people have no emotion.

Some people go a little too far with way too many runs in the song.


I still like this version the best by Rufus Wainwright:






However, these guys manage to get it right, too.  It doesn't hurt that I'm a sucker for acoustic arrangements, and I love me some harmony:





Anyone else just about fall out of their chair around 2:01 when THAT voice came out of THAT guy?