Leonard Cohen - "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." ~ Leonard Cohen, creator of the song, Hallelujah. He says: "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."
I sort of liked above. Always did like Leonard Cohen and this is such a great song. I'm 'avin' it at me funeral. I'd never actually heard it, until I went to Ireland in April, for a wedding, and some drunks were singing it in the bar.
I actually like the Alexandra one's version' it's very dramatic.
