Secrets of Tiffin Ohio

sreembit (November 21, 2008 at 10:29 am)

what soulless way of sing..

oldladymaz (November 20, 2008 at 10:43 pm)

If you want to hear a version that will blow you away, listen to "k.d. lang sings Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah from oneandonlyck.

sheila13669 (November 20, 2008 at 10:42 pm)

I've gone through all the versions of this song and no one is as good as Jason Castro. This one just made me giggle...whoa!

gilboagilboa (November 20, 2008 at 4:12 pm)

The words refer simultaneously to both religious experience and erotic love - the two levels are completely intertwined. David was a great warrior king, a man who was driven by erotic love to do terrible things - but who was also the quintessential religious poet, the author of Psalms (Read Samuel I&II). Cohen tries to show how these are all paradoxically interconnected - erotic passion gives rise to "hallelujah" ("Praise the Lord!), the word most closely identified with Psalms.