Hallelujah: the way of atonement

Grace comes to those who cry out to God in repentance with a ‘cold and a broken Hallelujah'

"Hallelujah"("Various Positions" Version)

(Narrator describing the Fall of David:
His faith is not strong enough to resist temptation.
He is captivated and overpowered by beauty/love)

Now 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 you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
luhah

Maybe I’ve been here before
I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch but love is not a victory march
it’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah


Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
But it’s not a cry that you hear at night 
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah


I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,


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King David's plight is an allegory of the human condition.
Who has not been ovepowered by the temptations of the world?!
None of our lives are faultless. We have all fallen ;we are all broken.
We are all in need of redemption,and healing... for the countless times we have not been strong enough.
It is the awareness of our brokenness wch compels us to turn with humility toward God and to cry out for strenght and for forgiveness (atonement).

K.D. Lang gives voice to Leonard Cohen(and to all humanity)--a voice that shines through one of the darkest times in our history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=P_NpxTWbovE&feature=youtube_gdata_player


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE&feature=youtube_gdata_player