Sunday, December 3, 2017

Stop The Hallelujah Nonsense

We all know Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.  It is song that has been sung by some of the greatest voices of our time.  We all know and love the "Hallelujah Chorus" portion of the song - sometimes it sounds hopeful, sometimes it sounds mournful and sometimes it sounds spiritual or religious.

I have never understood why this amazing and brilliant song is used on Christmas soundtracks and I never understood it is used at times of national mourning or as a song meant to bring us all together and lift us up.

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is about........  Wait for it.......... are you ready? ...........

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is about - what almost every Leonard Cohen song is about......

The hardship of love.  How painful love is.  How difficult love is. Unrequited love.  The ability to feel the same love another person has for you.  The inability accept love.  Wanting love but knowing you will never feel it.  The inability to give your love fully, truly and completely.  To Leonard Cohen love is a bleak and brutal landscape that must be walked across but every step is painful and in the end you will be left alone.   And, you know that it is going to all happen again.

So, I am begging you do not use this song during your religious program, do not use this during a community gather of hope and recovery.

The only thing this stunningly beautiful song unites us in is that we have all been hurt by love and we have all hurt others in love.

Leonard Cohen in performance


1 comment:

  1. AMEN Donnie! Love Cohen but the overuse of his masterpiece makes me wretch harder than that time I funneled a quart of Maneschewitz.

    So happy Roy the fake cowboy got his cumuppennce, nothing more delish than disgraced old cis-gendered bible humper!

    Looking to 2020 let's start the convo about getting RuPaul to run, who by the way is more womanly than that wench Killary was in her prime!

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