"it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, and the major lift"

Leonard Cohen

For four decades, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning as time goes on. His songs have set a virtually unmatched standard in their seriousness and range. Sex, spirituality, religion, power – he has relentlessly examined the largest issues in human lives, always with a full appreciation of how elusive answers can be to the vexing questions he raises. But those questions, and the journey he has traveled in seeking to address them, are the ever-shifting substance of his work, as well as the reasons why his songs never lose their overwhelming emotional force.

Cohen's lyrical poetry and his view that "many different hallelujahs exist" is reflected in wide-ranging covers with very different intents or tones of speech, allowing the song to be ""melancholic, fragile, uplifting [or] joyous" depending on the performer:[1] John Cale, the first person to record a cover version of the song, promoted a message of "soberness and sincerity" in contrast to Cohen's dispassionate tone;[1] Jeff Buckley's cover is more sorrowful and was described by Buckley as "a hallelujah to the orgasm";[1][2] Allison Crowe interpreted the song as a "very sexual" composition that discussed relationships;[1] Rufus Wainwright offered a "purifying and almost liturgical" interpretation to the song;[1] and Guy Garvey of Elbow anthropomorphised the hallelujah as a "stately creature" and incorporated his religious interpretation of the song into his band's recordings.[1]

Well, maybe there is a God above,
But all that I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.
It's not a cry that you hear at night,
And it is not somebody who has seen the light
It's a cold and it is a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

TALULA's Hallelujah:

takes all of the written interpretation and portrays what she believes
Hallelujah looks like and feels like via Leonard Cohens original idea
that many different uses of the word exist.
In this artwork Talula takes the common known visual of "the cross"
(IE: Tori Amos's lyrics - Get off the Cross; I need the Wood)
and pays tribute to the person in her life she has put on a pedestal.
Hallelujah means inspiration and how hard it is to stay inspired...
and what it takes to tie that inspiration to you...

Well, 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, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

and pain. Because with it all...there is always heartache....
But in the end...or the beginning...
You can always escape!


Well, baby, 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.
But I've seen your flag on the marble arch,
And love is not a victory march,
It's a cold and it is a broken Hallelujah


RING THE BELLS - I HEAR FREEDOM!!!