Hallelujah

Hallelujah.

I have been listening to Jeff Buckley's "Grace" lately. Like probably 95% of the western world, I have this intense adoration for the song "Hallelujah," so that regardless of who is covering it I just completely shut out the rest of the world and hide inside the lines, sometimes repetitively. On the morning of 9/11, I was in fact repeating the song over and over again for my entire commute to work, so I had no idea of what had happened that morning until I got to work and found everyone frantically trying to get internet news sites to load. In a cowardly, escapist way, I was glad to have found this psychic, preemptive solace in the song.

But my renewed affection for "Grace" had me randomly hunting around on the internets, and I found this, via Slightly Lively. When Leonard Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March, two of my favorite things collided: Damien Rice and Hallelujah. Watch it on full screen when he sings "her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you." That is music.

Behold:



And I can't embed this one, but while we're treating ourselves with our song, why not watch Jeff Buckley sing it, too?