Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley morreu em 1997 com uma carreira ainda por fazer. Foi nadar num afluente do Mississipi e enquanto um amigo o escutava cantarolando “Whole Lotta Love”, algo aconteceu e seu corpo só foi encontrado uma semana depois, bem longe do local. Quem escutar sua voz estará irremediavelmente ligada a ela. Não dá pra esquecer. Buckley interpretou uma música de Leonard Cohen que acabou virando uma lenda. Um hino. Já a escutei por pessoas que nem imaginava que gostavam dela. É música de se ouvir de olhos fechados. Como num dia de hoje.

Hallelujah, com Jeff Buckley

(Leonard Cohen)

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?

Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth

the minor fall and the major lift

the baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Well 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 her kitchen chair

she broke your throne and she cut your hair

and from your lips she drew the hallelujah.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Baby I've been here before

I've seen this room and I've walked this floor

You know, I used to live alone before I knew you

And I've seen your flag on the marble arch

and love is not a victory march

it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, 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 you?

but remember when I moved in you

and the holy dove was moving too

and every breath we drew was hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Well maybe there's a God above

but all I've ever learned from love

was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you

And it's not a cry that you hear at night

it's not somebody who've seen the light

it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah