Halleluj'all! from Pickin' Friends by The Pickin' Friends

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 fourth, the fifth
the minor fall, the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty in the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to a kitchen chair
she broke your throne, she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

Baby I've been here before
I know this room I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a vict'ry march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me, do ya?
Remember when I moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah?

Well maybe there's a god above
but all I've ever learned from love
is how to shoot at someone who outdrew ya
It's not a cry you can hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
well 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 which you heard
the holy or the broken 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 of song
with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

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