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Hallelujah

3 Apr 2023 · 3 min

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A performance of Hallelujah with two voices: one singing verses about David's secret chord, a king, and the blur between faith and desire, while the other chants Hallelujah as a meditative refrain. Sacred and profane language collide in the tension between divine longing and human weakness.

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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 ya? It goes like this: the 4th, the 5th, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Your faith was strong, but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya. She tied you to the 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, but I don't even know the name. But if I did, well, really, what's it to ya? There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter what 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 told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya. And even though it all went wrong, I'll stand before the Lord a song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.