Hallelujah

Thomas Cooper Gotch
Alleluia (1896)

Alleluia, Hallelujah o Halleluyah sono traslitterazioni della parola ebraica הַלְּלוּיָהּ (ebraico tradizionale Halləluya, ebraico tiberiense Halləlûyāh), composta da Hallelu e Yah, che si traduce letteralmente "preghiamo / lodiamo (הַלְּלוּ) YHWH (Yah יָהּ)", dove Yah è la forma abbreviata di YHWH (nome proprio di Dio, indicato con il tetragramma יהוה).

 

Brividi e malinconiche lacrime
come una carezza per un addio;
troppi cantano questa canzone,
pochi ne sanno la vera essenza...

 

La parola è usata 24 volte nella Bibbia Ebraica, specialmente nel libro dei Salmi (Salmi 113-118), dove inizia e termina una serie di Salmi e quattro volte nella versione greca del libro dell'Apocalisse (Nuovo Testamento).
La parola è di uso comune nelle liturgie cristiane, specialmente quella cattolica e ortodossa e fa parte del vocabolario di molte lingue europee e anche extraeuropee.
Per molti cristiani, Alleluia è la parola più gioiosa per esprimere lode e acclamare Dio.
In molti riti non viene recitato o cantato nel tempo di Quaresima o in altri tempi penitenziali, quando è sostituito da un'acclamazione.
(da wikipedia)

 

Hallelujah

 

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you dont really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor falls, the major lifts
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 her
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

Well, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
But it's not a crime that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the Light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Instrumental

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Well people I've been here before
I know this room and I've walked this floor
You see I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But listen love, love is not some kind of victory march, no
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove she was moving too
And every single breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Now I've done my best, I know it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didnt come here to London just to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand right here before the Lord of song
With nothing, nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah

 

Leonard Cohen