Hallelujah! What a beautiful word! The song, originally written and sung by Leonard Cohen in 1984,  has been performed by so many artists in various languages. But this cover by Jeff Buckley, an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, is a very special one!

“And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand right here before the Lord of song, with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah’.”

It’s, as I say, a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion…It’s a rather joyous song. I wanted to write something in the tradition of the hallelujah choruses but from a different point of view…It’s the notion that there is no perfection—that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything.

On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

~ Leonard Cohen

Listen to it and work on the lyrics here! You’ll love to sing along with this tune!

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