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| | I must agree, "Hallelujah" is perfect. Cohen tortures my soul and washes my stinky bed sheets. What more could I ask of an artist? Cale's version was actually used in the broken hearted/lonely scene in the movie Shrek(?!). I don't think it got liscenced on the soundtrack though, because I saw Rufus Wainwright's version on the back of the disc. Has anybody heard that version? And yes, every Cohen song is poetry. |
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| | beautiful song, indeed ( :
an artist I have the honour to work with, Allison Crowe, recorded her version last year ~ you can hear it @ http://www.allisoncrowe.com/music/hallelujah.mp3
peace, Ad |
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| | Actually I believe the Rufus Wainwright version is the one played during the film. It actually sounds very similar to John Cale in the arrangement and performance but I believe Wainwright's singing and piano playing to be more impassioned and in keeping with the intended feeling of the song. John Cale's rendition strikes me as curt and strangely emotionless. |
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as the verse almost piously concludes, “every breath we drew was Hallelujah”.
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Pious only in alluding to the sexual act as an act of worship when taken in complete context
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but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah
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