Hallelujah

"Well your faith was strong, but you needed proof,
then you saw her bathing on the roof;
her beauty in the moonlight overthrew ya'.

Then she tied you to her kitchen chair
and she broke your throne and she cut your hair,
and from your lips she drew the 'Hallelujah'

well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do ya'
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah ".

--Hallelujah, Leanord Cohen

This song is fabulous. The Jeff Buckley performance is really the best. I love it because it takes a word that normally refers to religious ecstacy and transmutes it an expression of intense, nearly unbearable this-wordly pleasure! Hallelujah!