Nos juntamos virtualmente con Alli Smalley y analizamos la letra de Hallelujah, de Leonard Cohen. Hablamos de la Biblia, del amor y de todo lo que hay en el medio.

NOTAS

• Leonard Cohen: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen


• Various Positions: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Various_Positions


• Versión de Cohen (original): https://youtu.be/ttEMYvpoR-k


• Versión de John Cale: https://youtu.be/DinEKqtCDkg


• Versión de Jeff Buckley: https://youtu.be/y8AWFf7EAc4


• Escena de Shrek: https://youtu.be/xURDJ-IW5YM


• Versión sin rima en “do you” (de Cohen): https://youtu.be/YrLk4vdY28Q


• Rey David: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David


• Bathsheba (Betsabé): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsabé


• Solomon (Salomón): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomón


• Sansón: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansón


• Historia de la cocina (parece que efectivamente no eran populares en la antigüedad): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocina_(habitación)#Historia_de_la_cocina


• Dalila (amante de Sansón): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalila


• Segundo Mandamiento (no nombrar a Dios en vano): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diez_Mandamientos_en_el_catolicismo#Segundo_Mandamiento


• Recitativo: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recitativo

LETRA ORIGINAL

I’ve heard there was a secret chord

that David played, and it pleased 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.

Hallelujah (x4)

Your faith was strong but you needed proof.

You saw her bathing 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.

Hallelujah (x4)

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.

Hallelujah (x4)

I did my best. It wasn’t much.

I couldn’t feel, so I tried 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 tongue but Hallelujah.

Hallelujah (x8)

ESTROFAS EXTRA

Baby, I’ve been here before,

I know this room, I’ve walked this floor.

I used to live alone before I knew you.

And I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch.

Love is not a victory march.

It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.

Hallelujah (x4)

There was a time you let me know

what’s really going on below

but now you never show it to me, do you?

I remember when I moved in you,

and the holy dove was moving too

and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

Hallelujah (x4)

Maybe there’s a god above

but all I’ve ever learned from love

is how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.

And it’s not a cry you can hear at night.

It’s not somebody who’s seen the Light.

It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.

Hallelujah (x4)