Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1984
Pass it on
Columbia · Sony Music Entertainment
Hallelujah
69Worth an evening.
Columbia, under Sony. The holy word survives the wreck he puts it in.
The review
Columbia released it, and almost no one heard it then. Sony holds Columbia. Cohen's version is not a love song that happens to say hallelujah. It is a man moving the word through sex, failure, and a cold room, and refusing to drop it.
There are softer versions. This is the one that knows the word is costly.
Journal
Keep Hallelujah in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Love Supreme
81 instead of 69
A Love Supreme is still a music song, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is piety: Gratitude, named, and then played until the band is spent.
The eight
- 9Industry
Verse after verse, and the secret chord is actually built.
- 5Household
David, Bathsheba, a love that failed. The house is in the wreckage.
- 8Piety
He keeps the hallelujah after he has no right to it. That is the faith in the song.
- 7Courage
He tells the cold and the broken version, not the pretty one.
- 4Republic
A private theology, overheard.
- 6Temperance
Desire is in it, and it does not get the last word.
- 8Truth
He will not pretend the praise is clean.
- 8Stewardship
A song a house can grow into. Do not hand a child only the romantic cut.
Where to listen
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Hallelujah · 69IMDb
