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

Irene

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe everyone who doesn't like the name Irene is pronouncing it wrong. Pretend it's Greek (uh, which it is). For starters, it's got three syllables. And the vowels are different. Maybe you'll like it better that way. Just a suggestion.
-Philia (whose child's middle name is Irene, with FRENCH pronunciation)

Re: Irene

[empmai.livejournal.com]

Can you spell it out how you pronounce it the french way and the greek way.

Hmm and maybe rhyme it with something so that I can hear it.

THhanks :)

Re: Irene

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, so it's not "eye-reen"? More like...what..."eye-ren-ay"?

Ooh...if it is "eye-ren-ay", that actually DOES feel better, somehow....

Re: Irene

[(Anonymous)]

Of course when I said "wrong," I meant "in a way that doesn't really work for you." You can pronounce it any way you want, and even with my Classical education, I don't pronounce every name in the books "accurately" (too much work). But, even though I like the name Irene in all its different forms, I too felt that I couldn't pronounce it as if singing "Goodnight Irene," so I played around with it in my mind's ear and went more Greek with it, and after that it seemed perfect.
Sure, eye-ren-ay could work, or ee-ray-nay (closer to the Greek), or even the more British eye-ree-nee.
The French would be more like ee-REHN. Only Frenchier.
Just find one that reads more naturally for you. Enjoy.
-Philia

Re: Irene

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ohh, it does sound so much better in the other pronounciations (anything but eye-reen)