hallelujah cohen live version

Leonard Cohen

Baby I ve been here before
I know this room, I walked this floor
I used to live alone here before I knew ya
Yeah and I ve seen your flag on the marble arch
But listen love; love is not some kind of victory march
No it s a cold and it s a very broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What s really going on below
Ah but now you never show it to me, do ya?
Well but I remember, yeah, when I moved in you
And the holy dove; she was moving too
Yes and every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there s a God above
As for me; all I ever seem to learn from love
Is how to shoot at someone who out-drew ya
Yeah, but it s not a complaint that you hear tonight
It s not the laughter of someone
who claims to have seen the light
No, it s a cold and it s a very lonely Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn t much
I couldn t feel, so I learned to touch
I ve told the truth; I didn t come all this way to fool ya
Yeah and even though it all went wrong
I ll stand right here before the lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah