"Hallelujah" By Leonard Cohen:
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 Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
A Day in the Life:
Beginning: Ground of all Being.
Giver of breath, maker of suns, Watcher of Worlds. Coming forth a creature. A
Being of pure light and consciousness. No being, Just Being. Look, intend,
watch. A world out of countless possibilities forms out of pure energy. Another
place to learn and grow and live and die. Why? Just to be. See the form that
will “become” When does spirit meet matter? When does it start? It doesn’t start
and it doesn’t stop. It’s all part of the same thing. The same ground of being.
Worlds form and worlds die but the stuff of being continues but doesn’t start
or stop. Look, incarnation in all it’s forms. Matter and creatures and all
evolves and changes. Why is love? Why is life? Why, why why?. Being!
Verse 11: Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in 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 Hallelujah
Then: Start the day: Love, not
mercy or sin or salvation. Just love. He just knows that he has always felt it.
It pulses through his veins. It calls from the sea and sun and mountains and
the moon. It’s in Mary’s eyes even though she isn’t “one of them.” It’s in the
samartian he met that day. The leper he touched. Even in the poor horrible
tormented ones that he had to cast out and in the pitiful creatures they drowned.
Still, love and passion for the journey of those whose form he sees when he
looks at a unclean one or a infidel or those thrown out of the temple as being
unworthy.
Chorus:
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Now:
Start the day: Brother Tim is up.
Man, is he pumped. Going to the rally to
try and save the lost. The gays have an agenda and he’s going to make sure they
hear of the “love” of Christ before they burn in hell. Also, she will be there
and that’s always a bonus. He has “normal” drives you know. But, he doesn't go too
far, not yet. He’s godly you know. Besides she’s he preachers daughter and he
wants to make sure Brother Bob knows how “pure” he is when he takes her out.
Sally: Finally people understand
her. She has felt what she feels her whole life. Would God really make her this
way to punish her? She went to Brother Bob. He was her pastor and friend her
whole life. He prayed with her when her mother died. He held her hand when she
had to have surgery due to a polyp. He said God delivered her when it came back
clean. So, she was confident when she approached him. She poured out her heart
to him. “This is who I am.” Doesn’t God still love me? Oh God, what is the
pastor saying? I’m going to hell because of a feeling? Christ loves me but he’s
very disappointed in me? Cast it out? Maybe there’s no god then because I tried
so hard to not be this way..I prayed and I fasted and I read all the books.
Song "Hallelujah" .... Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Congressman Sims: Hot Damn the
president is in trouble now. We can paint his butt as a anti war sissy now. I
didn’t go to Vietnam but hey I had reasons. I did go through the ROTC Program
in college. It was a legitimate deferment. Sure the president served. But,
according to a person from that unit the president never “liked or agreed with
the war.” How unpatriotic. Oh, yeah and the illegals. Also, the nimby panty
waist trying to give amnesty to illegals. Why, they would give the land back to
the Indians if they could. Savages and not Christian so they were driven out.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Then: A garden. I do this because
I love life, because it is important. But, it isn’t an end unto itself. I come, I come from the eternal. I have to lay this down to show how important it is
to live this life but not to hold on to power. Not to hold on to status. You
can’t lose what was never yours in the first place. This is the gift. To die
and yet to understand that even death is a door and not an end. I loved her. I
loved him. They nourished me and gave me life. It will hurt her. That is the
main regret. Every man dies but a mother shouldn’t have to watch her son. Oh,
God let her see it with the eyes you give her. With the eyes you give me…
There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Now: Sally: I can’t believe
anymore. I can’t play anymore. I have nowhere to go. I have this incredible
feeling that I matter. That the world matters. But, according to my pastor I’m
just dirt in god’s eyes. I can’t go on like this. But, I’m not brave enough to
end it so I’ll just live until I die. That will be that. I’m not even going to
try anymore. People are just biological meat sacks and that is that. This is
the world that I will inherit. Christ? Buddha? God? Fairy tales. They have to
be because I can’t bear the thought of trying to please an old prude in the sky
with no real knowledge of what I have to go through.
Brother Tim: Man, we showed them
today. We raised 10K for Congressman Sims. We also went out to witness but most
of them were just drunks and prostitutes. God wouldn’t think twice about them
unless they repent. It was a close one though. A young Christian (immature in
the faith) was trying to give an old nasty bum directions to the church. But,
Brother Bob reminded him that we donate to the Salvation Army every quarter and
the poor people have church service there.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Then: I hope they understand why
I’m doing this. It’s for the love of being. The love that I hope they will
extend to all those outside the temple. The Samaritan and the gentile. The
leper and the blind and the oppressed. The outcast and the wanderer with no
home and no family. The temple can be the family. This dance of spirit and
matter. They are just dust in some ways but divine in the eternal sight of the
one with who we all have to do. Why are they laughing at me? Spitting? Surely,
they will understand someday and just learn to embrace and unite. They are all
made of the same stuff. Part of the same “Beingness.” At least when they think
of me, they will understand that a cross is part of living this life. I feel it
now…The pulse of fear and anger as they watch me….
Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Now: Brother Bob: So sad. I
watched Sally as she marched with “those people” that God despises. She doesn't know God. How dare she even say his name. They that reject
Christ. Oh well, it’s her decision. I’ve got to get to the board meeting. I
think I’m getting a raise and it’s just in time for our trip to “the holy land”
this year. Man, will that be fun. I made a lot of great connections last time I
went.
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, Hallelujah
Then: Father forgive them…They
know not what they do.
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 Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
