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The God Squad must be so overwhelmed
gilliedew
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Can you imagine their joy
All the young people singing Hallelujah
Dont tell them, just dont tell them
All the young people singing Hallelujah
Dont tell them, just dont tell them
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I think there still going on this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak8JMOramKM
There's nothing wrong with believing in God, however, and I'm surprised you or anyone else would have a problem with (apparently) everyone who does. Why shouldn't they be allowed to believe in whoever or whatever they want? It's a personal decision which everyone has a right to.:)
Yes, they're a very good christian band. Better than Blazing Squad IMO.
Some of us Bible bashers have brains and computers AND even t'internet some of us... honest!
I googled the lyrics on Saturday and found em a bit befuddled, talking about David, then Samson, then love, then letting someone down, but not doing it on purpose etc etc... found it all a bit depressing to be honest, but as a friend told me, that was Leonard Cohen's trademark apparently. (Not sure if that's true).
However, I like the song in its own right, good tune, haunting even, but I don't think it's all about orgasms as some are claiming.
I think the only people who'll be overwhelmed by it as you put it are more likely to be someone like Mr C who no doubt heard 'hallejuah' in it and thought- that'll do well for Christmas and looked no deeper. (Apologies to Mr C if I've misrepresented him).
Liked what one wag wrote about it actually being about Mr C when it says "You don't care much for music do ya?" certainly seems that way doesn't it.
Merry CHRISTmas by the way!!
Jon.
They got to Boot Camp last year
It is, in many respects, a song for every occasion. Rufus Wainwright has said, "It's an easy song to sing. The music never pummels the words. The melody is almost liturgical and conjures up religious feelings. It's purifying." It was not, however, an easy song to write. When he works, Cohen explores every lyrical permutation, sometimes completely finishing verses then discarding them. He claims there are at least 80 verses to Hallelujah. "I filled two notebooks and I remember being in the Royalton Hotel [in New York], on the carpet in my underwear, banging my head on the floor and saying, 'I can't finish this song.'"
He has actually recorded two distinct versions, with almost completely different lyrics, and it is partly this that lends the song its openness to interpretation, as artists mix and match verses. It subtly alters over time to reflect the needs of the moment.
Appropriately, in its original version on Cohen's 1984 album Various Positions, Hallelujah is, partially, about the act of songwriting itself. Cohen invokes the Biblical story of King David (composer of psalms and so the original songwriter) and the woman whose beauty overthrew him, Bathsheba. The protagonist offers up his "sacred chord" to a lover whose indifference to art is expressed in the put-down, "You don't really care for music, do ya?"
Strictly speaking the word 'hallujah' and the stories about Samson/David predate Christianity and are a part of Jewish tradition as well. Since Cohen is Jewish I doubt very much he meant the song to be some kind of Christian anthem.
I agree with you about SC and I suspect that a vast number of people don't listen to the lyrics of songs -I'm sure if the X Factor winner recorded a version of the Sex Pistols song 'God save the Queen' a large % of viewers would think it was a patriotic song about the royal family :rolleyes:
I can only imagine the uproar if this was aimed at any other followers of faith than Christians.
The Old Testament is full of sex and violence.
He won Britain's Got Talent.
How do you know that he didn't?
LOL are you for real?
Coz the annoying little pratt won BGT!!
Sorry I didn't watch the show and I see no evidence of his existence in the charts so I shall have to remain sceptical :cool: