Hallelujah

verse #1 (first three lines)... refers to david of the bible but also eludes to the playing of the harp (consider that many guys talk about interacting with a woman the way they would a musical instrument, both physically and emotionally/socially, and tells of the woman not being interested in physical or emotional interaction anymore - (next three lines plus hallelujah): reminder of how they used to interact and what it was like

verse #2 (first three lines): references batsheva's capture of david's interest and of a woman's power over a man - (next two lines): references delilah's betrayal of samson, forewarning of how a man can be hurt by woman - (continued with last line plus hallelujahs): in knowing delilah, samson's hair was cut, thereby robbing him of his strength; various hallelujahs elude to something stolen and something expressed - as in a man being 'released' from his independence and his subsequent appreciation of what he would not have otherwise known

verse #3 (missing on this page): "Baby I have been here before... I know this room, I've walked this floor... I used to live alone before I knew you." - reasserting the idea that he had been with her, had shared a bedroom, and that before he became one with her he had been an individual but now he was only one half of something broken.- (continued): "I've seen your flag on the marble arch... Love is not a victory march" - love is destroying him because he can't move on having known what she was like - (continued): "It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah... Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah" - (various hallelujahs: a pleading for her return, a remembrance and appreciation for the past)

verse #4 (missing on this page): "There was a time you let me know... what's really going on below... But now you never show it to me, do you?" - they are not intimate anymore, physically, emotionally, or otherwise - (continued): "And remember when I moved in you... The holy dove was moving too... And every breath we drew was Hallelujah" - their physical and relational oneness reflected one another, it was spiritual and beautiful - (continued): "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah" - (various hallelujahs: reflecting on how it was and reminding her of how great it was, etc.)

verse 5 (first three lines): he knows he's not perfect or possibly even a good man but he doesn't pretend to be either, and maybe she is or feels it necessary to at least try to be, but why should she care whether he pretends to be or not? - (next two lines): there was an argument, and one or both were acting self-righteous - (next two lines): she was going to be upset no matter what he said - (hallelujahs): whether he went with the i'm-gonna-win-this-argument-at-any-cost type or the i-want-you-back-and-i'm-secretly-sorry type or the i'm-going-to-say-i'm-sorry-just-to-win-you-back type, any could have applied but none would have done him any good

verse 6 (first three lines): it felt to him like they had fallen apart at that point so he tried just going through the motions afterward to see if it could still work, but she didn't come back to him in the way he needed, meaning he couldn't the relationship to go back to the way it used to be - (next two lines): it didn't work in the sense of them being together intimately - (next two lines): but, if it is over, he's still glad to have known her, the motions were still nice in some ways, he considers it a welcomed and righteous experience, no regrets but a certain sadness that it didn't last - (hallelujahs): all of the other kinds of hallelujahs mentioned before and possibly several others, unspoken and heart-felt, or as the listener might imagine were they in that situation.