| Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i like it. there is a lot of sense in your words. | |
| Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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what an excellent interpretation. you're right, it's about true love and true loss. about forgiveness, and acceptance. one little comment: verse #1; you interpret the music reference in the way how a man 'playes' a woman like a musical instrument.(that is a nice one). but i take it more literally: music can make a person feel divine, it can be a source of great joy(a secret chord, and one can play it and it will please the lord). however, i've met lots of people( and women have more reserves in this then man (in very general)) who can't or won't open there hearts for that. they treat music like a sound, a noise(can be pleasant, but almost never touching/moving). and if you try to explain it they miss the point. (but you don't care for music, do you?) what do you think about that? |
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| Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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i think the interpretation of 'iqdcrct' posted on 9-8-2010 is getting close to the heart of the song. (i posted a reply there with my comments). However, now i feel the urge to comment to a lot of my fellow reactors about the god- and Christian and/or Jewish religion component(for these two share the old testament, among other things) they seem to notice, or not notice. when a person has an extensive Christian(Jewish) background, or grew up in this tradition(parents believe in god, bible reading, church going etc.) but decides for him/herself that he/she doesn't believe in a god, then that doesn't mean that that person can't see the value in the stories in the bible. there is immense wisdom in that book, and you can read it as a teaching. Without ending up believing in a supreme being, a (interventionist)god. there are more books of great wisdom and knowledge. i don't know if god exists, to me it's not relevant. everybody is free to take comfort and joy in there own believes. God is love, or is love god? is that what can make us feel divine? or is there something divine outside us? there is no final answer to those questions. a matter of 'believing'? for those among you who are bible-strong(is that an english word?) 1 Corinthians 13 verse 1-13. this song is about love and loss, about divinity, and human incapacity. to me. i don't think the Christian or Jewish God (is that one and the same?) plays a role here, neither in a lot of L.C. poems. not more then a metaphorical role. hope nobody feels offended by this, because that's definitely not my intension. don't let me be misunderstood. |
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| Leonard Cohen – Avalanche Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me, and i see to some others, this is a song about a love that stranded on the beach of human inability, disability. we hear a scorned lover (L.C.?), and he has found himself in his emotions after a breaking point. (sorry English is not my native language) He speaks in ruthless honesty, bitter, about his feelings. about how he feels/sees the way she(?) is looking at him (that hunchback). he is also bitter about himself: he thought he could feel unconditional love, and found he is disappointed in himself(i, who have no need). They(the lovers) grew apart, and started to please each other (do not dress in these rags for me). he is resentful about how she is dealing with the situation, her emotions, and her choices, he tells her that she is not sincere. And he is resentful about his own reaction to that. still.. he loves her(beloved). he loves her deeply (it's your flesh that i wear) this becomes more clear when you read the changes that he made (see the comment of Mahaft on 8-28-2009). to me it is clearly a love-song (a very painful one). Or maybe i'm just filling my own relational problems into the song.... ;) anyway... |
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| Leonard Cohen – Avalanche Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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hai cz, i posted my own interpretation, and as you see it's very different than yours. i feel that you take a very intellectual approach with a lot of difficult words, and you take a poem about love and/or hate to a metaphysical level. you translate it to an abstract outer world, not to an inner world. you might be right, but i miss feeling in your explanation. in your second paragraph you hit the nail on the head in my opnion, but it is very academic. do you understand what i mean, or am i babbling? ;) looking forward to your reaction |
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