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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Hallelujah (page 7/ 20) ------ performed by Jeff Buckley Minor and Major | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/21/07 I think that the chords align with the "hallelujah" chord. The notes he play fall into a fourth, then a fifth, a minor chord and then a major chord. Minor chords are associated with sadness and major with happiness (minor fall major lift) and therefore it's important that there is a major chord at the end of the "hallelujah" it gives hope. Also, there are references to David, Bathsheba and there is also a reference to Samson. This is an all in all beautiful song with very deep meaning (ie- not all about sex) but as well put by other commenters, about hope, mortal love, divine love and promise. Beautifully written | Reviewer: Cassie | 10/18/07 I find the words very meaningful, to everyone it has its own meaning and that's why it's so beautiful. Lyrics like this touch hearts, and being sung by Jeff Buckley, well let me just say that no one could have sang it better then him. People like music, they listen to it more then they read such beautiful writing. I too am a writer, and I take an interest in stuff like this. It's one of my favorite songs. To me it's about love, not just sex because in all honesty to most sex has to come with love, and it's hard to find someone who feels the same way about it. We go our hole lives learning, and living, but you've only lived if you've loved. I love this song | Reviewer: susan | 10/16/07 but from reading the reviews here, i get the impression some people think this song was written by Jeff buckley but it wasn't. this song was actually composed by Leonard Cohen. Jeff just did his version of the song like many other artists, like bon jovi, who by the way does an excellent and very moving version himself jest wanted to share. Mythology Allusion | Reviewer: Kasey | 10/3/07 In the second verse when he saw her bathing on the roof alludes to the goddess Melusine who married a mortal man on the condition that he would never walk in on her at night when she bathed and turned into a two-tailed goddess. But sure enough the husband thought she was having an affair and walked in on her and broken-hearted she cut his hair and fled. King David | Reviewer: chris | 10/4/07 in 2 Samuel [ i think, it could be 1 Samuel] Theres a verse, and its a story about how David waimperfect as a king, and he saw a lady bathing on her roof. Her name was Bathsheba. And it has a lot to do with that, basically. jeff buckley | Reviewer: Kayla | 9/18/07 I think the sigh at the beginning of the recording is indicative of the tone of the song. He's sighing so therefore he's upset. I agree with the 4th review. They put up a fair argument with evidence. Someone should look into the way the music was written, initially, (not the lyrics) if its in a minor or major key etc. This would reflect the mood i'm sure. I'm not an expert with the theory of music, but someone should comment on this. I think it will be the deciding factor. After all, it is the part that sucks you in and makes you get goosebumps (the voice does this too.. but the instruments help ALOT) smiling jeff | Reviewer: mories | 9/9/07 jeff buckley must be smiling, like many writers do when they read or hear people analyse their work. but that's ok. i listened to the music, cycling to work and back, at work, at home, for a week now and i am not mentally ill. i just love it so much right now. every body finds in a song, a book, a movie what's there for him and her. and that's just so fine. :) Shivers | Reviewer: Andrew | 9/8/07 The first time i heard this song it sent shivers down my spine, and everytime i listen to it the shivers get worse and and my eyes start to flood up, I play it over and over and sing it twice as much although when sitting on my own cant get the words out for crying, no other song ever written has made me feel like this, im not a religous man but could not live without music and this is song is evry emotion contained in something i would call heart rendering perfection from the voice to the guitar and lyrics this song haunts me and will untill there is no breath left in me remain my favourite song Interpretation of Hallelujah - not dove or dark but Tao | Reviewer: Susan | 9/4/07 I heard this song for the first time this weekend, and it is so beautiful that I have played it over and over and over. My interpretation is that the song compares human sex and love as our attempt to reach the ultimate, perfect love of and relationship with God. We long for the sacred romance, but have to settle for our earthly version of it. That is why it is a "broken" Hallelujah. Sex is worship if it is an expession of love. The second verse as well as the first refers David, who saw Bathsheba and had to have her, so he sent her husband into battle. The verse with the flag over the marble arch continues the theme of the biblical time of David. When I listened to the song I though that Buckley was refered to "the holy Tao" (pronounced dow), which in Taoism is in essence God the creator. Whatever word he used, Jeff Buckley captures in his voice humanity's longing for union with God. My interpretation of this song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/1/07 A lot of people have speculated on the meaning of this song. Someone said he knew for a fact what it was about, but wouldn't tell anyone because he didn't want anyone to stop liking the song. That person presumably thinks this song is about sex. An earlier analysis said the same thing, except explicitly. Of course, it is partly about sex, but I think there's more to it. The only overtly sexual verse is the second-to-last one where he speaks of "moving in you". More to the point, this song is about love, not just sex. The sex is part of the love, but it goes hand-in-hand with it. "Remember when I moved in you? And the holy dove was moving too", for example, where both sex and holiness are combined together, because they move together. So if we then take religion to be an allegory for love, then much more of the song makes sense. The "secret chord" that David plays that pleases the lord is a symbol for love, again, but "You don't care for music", so the person he's singing to doesn't believe in the holiness of love. This is also seen by the author saying that "Your faith was strong," meaning you could love at one point, but "her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you" (i.e. the lover was seduced by something else, and is no longer interested in the pure love the singer sings of). The seducer brings forth a "Hallelujah" from the lips of the lover, which indicates the lover has forsaken the old "god" (love) for the new god (the seducer). The singer doesn't like this and, feeling alone ("I've been here before, I’ve seen this room and I've walked this floor, I used to live alone before I knew you", which means he feels now as he did before he met his lover) admonishes his lover, ("Love is not a victory march"). Apparently, part of the seduction of the lover is that the lover believes she has some claim on the singer. Thus, we end up in the last verse where the lover has staked a claim on the singer. The singer doubts his faith in love "Maybe there's a god above", but he also seems to have left the relationship. "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you" (the outdrawing refers to the claim staked on the singer by the lover). In the final lines, he speaks of how his love is not a cry that you hear at night (think sex) and it's not someone who's seen the light (someone who believes in love as he does), but it's cold and broken and pleading. It's a very sad song about loss of faith, disappointment, and maybe even hope (the "secret" chord he's heard of that might yet please the lord). All in all, a very deep and beautiful song. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages