Hallelujah, praise the Insomnia

[karatelunch.livejournal.com]

This may be the crazy girl who comes out at 2:30 in the morning talking, but I think these lyrics fit beautifully with Gen and Attolia and all that razzmatazz. (On a slightly side-ish note, I'm going to call the Queen Attolia; I've really been trying to reconcile "Irene" in my head, but I almost feel like I'm intruding on something personal. If I may mesh my fandoms atrociously, it's like Mulder calling Scully "Dana" in the X-Files - so rare and intimate that one feels uncomfortable witnessing it. She's "Attolia" in QoA, and that was my literary bible for a good long while, so Attolia she shall stay. Lyrics below the cut! Good morning!)

I bolded what I thought most applicable  -


Now 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, hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah


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, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah 
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
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah


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, hallelujah
Hallelujah, 
Hallelujah

Comments

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Someone pointed this out before-- it really is applicable if people keep thinking of it! Who is it, Green Day?

[avian-xj.livejournal.com]

it's written by Leonard Cohen, but several different people have done their version of it. I like Jeff Buckley's (this may be because it was the one i first heard :P) Go listen to it! it's a pretty relaxing song.

[(Anonymous)]

kd lang has a version of it on "Hymns of the 49th Parallel."
-P.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

k. d. lang's is definitely my favourite.

[(Anonymous)]

kd lang's version of ANYTHING is my favorite.
-P.

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

And my favorite is still JJ Cale's version, but that is partly because I love Johnny's piano playing. It's also on the Shrek soundtrack.

[fabricalchemist.livejournal.com]

THAT'S where I knew it from! XD;;

[karatelunch.livejournal.com]

mmm, yeah- I heard it first in Shrek.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Heheh, I also know it from Shrek. This really does go perfectly with them. Which pleases me, because I've actually been trying to think of songs that fit them. (Mostly because that's what I've been doing for my characters lately. Character playlists are a writer's best friend. XD *geeks out*)

Green Day

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Green Day has the Attolia song - Pulling Teeth, from Dookie

("I'm all busted up ... She comes to check on me, making sure I'm on my knees ...is she ultra-violent, is she disturbed? I better tell her that I love her before she does it all over again")