Hallelujah

I've heard there was a secret chord
that David play to please 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!

Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw here standing on the roof,
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
she broke your throne, she cut your hair,
and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah!

You say I took the Name in vain.
I don't even know the name.
But if I did well, really, what's it to you!
There's a blaze of light in every word;
it doesn't matter which you heard,
the holy, or the broken Hallelujah!

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I learned to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong,
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!

Now mabye there's a God above
but all I've ever learned from love
is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.
And it's not complaint you hear tonight,
and it's not some pilgram who's seen the light -
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah!

Appears on: Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Written by: Leonard Cohen
Performed by: Bono