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Gumbi Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Been part of one of those on the Place de la Fontaine St-Michel in Paris, there turned out to be so much people that it almost created a traffic jam... The atmosphere was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Italians know how to give a hug. None of that North American back patting nonsense. You aren't burping a baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Been part of one of those on the Place de la Fontaine St-Michel in Paris, there turned out to be so much people that it almost created a traffic jam... The atmosphere was amazing.Were you "giving" or "receiving"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specs Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Ah the bliss of youthful innocence and optimism. Don't we all miss it sometimes eh?Love the soundtrack but can't for the life of me figure out what the lyrics are really about. The melody/tune does really work well with the video though doesn't it?I love the way they huggers seem to be getting no takers at the beginning and then as the music buids up it starts to snowball.(And why do I keep thinking of Homeland Security as I watch - this business just beats it out of us somedays I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Ah the bliss of youthful innocence and optimism. Don't we all miss it sometimes eh?Love the soundtrack but can't for the life of me figure out what the lyrics are really about. The melody/tune does really work well with the video though doesn't it?I love the way they huggers seem to be getting no takers at the beginning and then as the music buids up it starts to snowball.(And why do I keep thinking of Homeland Security as I watch - this business just beats it out of us somedays I think)Specs.....Shame-Shame.....!!!! :biggrin2:You didn't recognize the lyrics written by one of Canada's greatest song writers..Leonard Cohen ????? In all honesty...he is the only one who can really do justice to the song.................. but then again KD Lang did quite well at the Olympics with the song."Hallelujah"I've heard there was a secret chordThat David played, and it pleased the LordBut you don't really care for music, do you?It goes like thisThe fourth, the fifthThe minor fall, the major liftThe baffled king composing HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahYour faith was strong but you needed proofYou saw her bathing on the roofHer beauty in the moonlight overthrew youShe tied you to a kitchen chairShe broke your throne, and she cut your hairAnd from your lips she drew the HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahBaby I have been here beforeI know this room, I've walked this floorI used to live alone before I knew you.I've seen your flag on the marble archLove is not a victory marchIt's a cold and it's a broken HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahThere was a time when you let me knowWhat's really going on belowBut now you never show it to me, do you?And remember when I moved in youThe holy dove was moving tooAnd every breath we drew was HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahMaybe there’s a God aboveBut all I’ve ever learned from loveWas how to shoot at someone who outdrew youIt’s not a cry you can hear at nightIt’s not somebody who has seen the lightIt’s a cold and it’s a broken HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahYou say I took the name in vainI don't even know the nameBut if I did, well really, what's it to you?There's a blaze of light in every wordIt doesn't matter which you heardThe holy or the broken HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahI did my best, it wasn't muchI couldn't feel, so I tried to touchI've told the truth, I didn't come to fool youAnd even though it all went wrongI'll stand before the Lord of SongWith nothing on my tongue but HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujah, HallelujahHallelujahThis version is from Cohen's latest DVD....... .his concert in London. I have the DVD and it is GREAT !!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fido Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Kip:I disagree with you on Leonard Cohen singing it wellKD Lang has sung it the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Agree, no contest there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boestar Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 This song was also done by the Canadian Tenors. I have it on my iPod. Great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specs Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Specs.....Shame-Shame.....!!!! :biggrin2:You didn't recognize the lyrics written by one of Canada's greatest song writers..Leonard Cohen ????? Oh no. I knew it was Leonard Cohen al right. I just dont understand what the heck the song is about.God?Love?Temptation?The Habs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo32a Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I'm with you specs. Why do "artists" have to hide the meaning of whatever they are trying to say in some undecipherable lyric, painting, poem, book.Or is there any meaning to most of them? How about the elephant who paints with his tail/trunk whatever and they are selling like hotcakes. Ain't no meaning there, just marks on a canvas. When I saw the news article about it on TV they had an exhibition at some art studio, and a bunch of "art appreciators" studying them. One clown.. uh sorry, appreciator, stated that the elephant was indeed saying something. The only thing he could possibly be saying is "suckers!!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deicer Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I'm with you specs. Why do "artists" have to hide the meaning of whatever they are trying to say in some undecipherable lyric, painting, poem, book.Only lyrics with meaning.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 OK.....here are two opinions of the meaning...but really.....do we need to dissect a song to like it???PS....you will note that the original (poem/song had 80 verses !!!http://www.lyricinte...ohen/Hallelujahhttp://en.wikipedia....nard_Cohen_song)This is the last cut on the DVD where Leonard highlights all the members of his band, including the Webb sisters, Sharon Robinson et al.There is no doubt the drummer is exceptional playing his solo near the end of the cut with nothing but brushes !!!!I promise I will not post any more of Leonard's work !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZAEsn4_nDY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specs Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Don't do that Kip. One can seldom goes wrong with a Leonard Cohen song. The Lyrics just struck me as curious and puzzling.Looking at the interpretations you provided I'm amazed the poor fella isn't on a suicide watch. Quoting"What I see in the poem is a man who finds it hard to reconcile his own singular personal quest for truth as a spiritual seeker and as a creative artist with earthly love.He is "overthrown" by the beauty of the woman bathing on the roof and intoxicated with desire for her yet with that comes compromise.Being tied to a kitchen chair suggests being bound to domesticity and having his hair cut recalls Samson whose strength was lost when Delilah cut his hair.He feels he has sacrificed his power for ephemeral sexual desire,emotional needs and freedom from the burden of loneliness.And inevitably the hallelujah, the ecstasy fades and withit bitterness and disillusionment since his lover has no feeling for creativity as evidenced by her lack of interest in music,his explanation of which seems to fall on deaf ears.At the same time,the sexual magnetism, "down below" has diminished or even gone in the way that the energy of many relationships weaken into dead habit.So there is a sense he has been left with nothing, doubting a god above and likening earthly love to a gunfight.It is as if he has betrayed his deepest yearnings and is only left with a cold and broken hallelujah, an empty exhortation, a state of inner desolation."Did really enjoy the video though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fido Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I promise I will not post any more of Leonard's work !! Leonard Cohen's writing is terrific but his voice has never been good (I refer back even to 1968 when I first saw him) and his voice has not been helped by too much Scotch, too many cigarettes and too much recreational drug use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Leonard Cohen's writing is terrific but his voice has never been good (I refer back even to 1968 when I first saw him) and his voice has not been helped by too much Scotch, too many cigarettes and too much recreational drug use.I think guys like Leonard Cohen and Joe Cocker give old farts like us the courage to personally belt out a few tunes in the confines of our showers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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