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By Pages:   Previous 10 Pages    11    12    13    14    15    16    17    18    19    20    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Hallelujah (page 16/ 20) ------ performed by Jeff Buckley Spectaularly moving | Reviewer: Rebecca | 10/12/06 I first heard the Rufus Wainwright (sp?) version on Shrek and loved it. The more I listen, the more this moves me (to tears) and the more layers of haunting & tragic (but not desperate) beauty I detect in it. I am grateful just that this piece of music exists. Jeff Buckley | Reviewer: JIM | 9/24/06 It is a beautiful song, ruined by Jeff Buckley. Have listened to Grace several times and I just don't get it - he can't sing, simple as that. I think I know what it's about | Reviewer: Gray | 9/7/06 ...Assuming that throughout the song, the singer is singing to a singular entity (whoever 'you' is), there is only ONE thing I can possibly fathom it being about. I could be biased--or maybe that which would make me 'biased', as such, would be the very reason I believe I can comprehend... The first time I actually listened to the lyrics I was certain I completely understood it, and it's not about religion or anything else I've seen its meaning attributed to for that matter... BUT for everyone else's sake I'm not telling what I think cos I'm worried it will discourage someone out there from liking it, and it is SUCH a lovely song. I'd wager most of the poor sods who've sung it didn't even realise what it's about. Just sit there, try not to apply any sort of preconceived notion you have about it, and don't choose to disregard anything it says, and it's pretty obvious what it's about. opionion | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/13/06 omg this song is so amazing its an honour and a tribute to music an time less clasic to be treasured in our hearts forever painful | Reviewer: Caroline | 7/18/06 I hear a deep sexuality in the lyrics that has a grab you quality and the emptiness of after when you have taken or been taken from and your spirit is broken. Deeper I hear a remorseful cry to God that believes itself damned which stirs a grief in me and yet there is a wee breath of Hope in there that stops you on the brink. It is a song which seems like a flagrant display of truth. Wonderful | Reviewer: BFORDMON@LYCOS.CO.UK | 6/13/06 One of the greatest songs ever. Brilliant lyrics bt Cohen, Developed superbly by Buckley. A song I believe about addiction. Jack L, an Irish artist, does a version without 2nd last verse, that is the most moving rendition I have heard, because of his voice. Check it out. Meaning of the song... | Reviewer: bd | 6/3/06 not my words, but very insightful... copied from a post on Radio Paradise the original cohen lyrics were steeped in the old testament let's examine the word "Hallelujah" hallelujah - a shout or song of praise to God or in the vernacular; "Oh God" I am sure many of us can remember using "Oh God!" in the throes of passion Well there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below (the belt) But now you never show that to me do you (no more sex) But remember when I moved in you (coitus) And the holy dove (spirit) was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah (Oh God!) overtly sexual, (parentheses mine) and at the same time "Oh, God" when we are in bowels of despair And it's not a cry (not a scream of passion) that you hear at night ( but instead sobbing) It's not somebody who's seen the light (not a religous awakening) It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah (Oh, God) (Oh, God - like when we're heart broken and on our 8th beer or 2nd liter of Haagen-Dasz so we can forget) Cohen's version had the word "lonely" in place of "broken" I believe that Buckley's version is about the kind of love that is heavily interlaced with sex - not "love making" but "love-lust", the kind of sex that makes you come back for more again and again and again.... almost drug like someone who you don't just hold hands with and eat quiet dinners, but someone who you can't wait to get them into bed, since for those 2 or 3 hours, you actually "love" so here he sings of love-lust gained and love-lust lost love/lust that literally makes you sing, and like an addictive drug, once taken from you, makes fall into a well of despair the 1st two stanzas can also be easily interpreted as how love-lust can change someone, strengthen or weaken, as exemplified by the King David/Bathsheba and Samson references Buckley's haunting voice gives his version that painful quality that makes me believe he is singing not of faith and religion, but of that which, like the moth to the flame, we seek and usually get burned, yet we seek it again and are stronger for the journey the journey to find someone we can connect with on emotional and sexual level - sex on a Friday night after a few drinks and then on Saturday morning when you're sober of course if one hears the song with the images from "The West Wing", "The OC" or "Lord of War" it does take on a more spiritual feel and the love-lust part kinda gets lost PS - KD Lang's version is a close 2nd to Buckley's, but lacks that haunting quality Haunting | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/3/06 I first heard this song while watching Saint Ralph, and then on a tv episode of some program. It is simply haunting. But I do not understand most of the words. What is the author saying. The sound is wonderful, but the meaning of the words escapes me. Help. WoW ... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/19/06 Hello Everyone ... Truely beautiful song .. Love it to death !!! I would like to know if someone can tell me a little more about the actual meaning of the song. I know just a little about it and i would like to know more. Its interesting :-) Thanks so much in advance guys Heard it on The Oc for the first time .. In The First Season ... and profoundly touched me again when I saw the season's 3 Finale yesterday ... A beautiful Leonard Cohen song. | Reviewer: Chris | 5/13/06 There is also a very good version of this song by the composer – Leonard Cohen; nearly everyone on this site seems to think it is a Jeff Buckley song which couldn’t be further from the truth. Jeff Buckley sings a very good version of it and it is, indeed, a beautiful song. Who is the song to? Is it to the Lord Himself or to the Lord of Song - or even to Sampson? Delilah cut Sampson’s hair and blinded him – I don’t think she tied him to a kitchen chair before cutting his hair but the metaphor is there. The song – and I could be wrong – is written in a rising 5th like ‘My Way’ which may have some meaning in the first verse and hooks the listener from the first hearing. Apart from being a beautiful song it is also an equally beautiful poem. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   Previous 10 Pages    11    12    13    14    15    16    17    18    19    20