Hallelujah

[katex]

Originally Posted by shakermaker

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Dear Oscar!
It's nothing intellectual at all. That would be vulgar. It's perfect poetry because the meaning is subjective. Hopefully even Cohen has no clue what it means. I'm probably talking jibberish now. 'Hallelujah' makes no sense whatsoever in terms of any narrative, but in a fantastical story form it seems to make all the sense in the world. That's why I love it. It's utterly brilliant gobbledygook.

In other words, utter crap.

We are not spectators though Shakermaker .. listeners, and must admit that the tune is very haunting.

Think this is some type of love song, and we should endeavour to put more banal lyrics to this, then would be more uplifting. Think maybe that is the attraction though .. that everyone pretends to understand it. Still think he had 'popped a few' when he wrote it though.

[lindsay ormerod]

Katherine Dawn Lang, native of Canada, stunning looking lady some 10 years ago, ( may have converted me back then !) but sadly not looking too hot now, great voice though, and bucketloads of passion!

[shakermaker]

Originally Posted by katex

Still think he had 'popped a few' when he wrote it though.

Pft, that Doherty fellow with his dirty fingernails has bred such cynicism!

And Lennon, McCartney, Mick, Keef, Cash, Dylan, blah blah blahhh...

[lindsay ormerod]

Heard the Alexandra version today whilst in Spar, it is bland in the extreme, no passion, no emotion, dross.
That may well make me an "Halleleujah" snob but so what, I seem to recall mentioning it as the song I wanted at my funeral on a thread on here some time back , and certainly not sung by her! ( or I will be back to wreak terrible revenge!)