Hallelujah, praise the Insomnia

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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

[(Anonymous)]

It's hard to call Eugenides "Gen" (for me, at least) because of the part in Thief where he refrains from telling the Magus that only people he likes are allowed to call him "Gen."

Partly I can't think of Attolia as Irene because the third-person narrator never calls her that.

~Feir Dearig

As a former ballet student I am somewhat in awe of the martial arts...

[empmai.livejournal.com]

I call him Gen only because Eugenides is too easy to mispell :)

[(Anonymous)]

Ballet is way harder, in my opinion. I sucked so royally at ballet. I think the trouble was that there were no attackers motivating the movements...
-Philia