Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright

Album
Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture
Released
2001

           [Verse] B G#m B G#m - E F# B F# - B E-F# G#m E

I've heard there was a secret chord      F# D#7  G#m G#m

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               [Intro]

The baffled King composing Hallelujah      B G#m B G#m


Hallelujah (x4) [Chorus] E E G#m G#m - E E B F# - (B F#)


Your faith was strong but you needed proof   [Intro]

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, she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah  [Chorus]


Maybe I have been here before           ╔═══════════

I know this room, I've walked this floor  Hallelujah

I used to live alone before I knew you - …  Rufus

I've seen your flag on the marble arch  ║ Wainwright

Love is not a victory march             ╚═══════════

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

                                            [Chorus]

There was a time when you let me know

What's real and going on below

But now, you never show it to me - Do you

And remember when I moved in you

The Holy Dark was moving too

And every breath we drew was Hallelujah     [Chorus]


Maybe there's a god above

And all I ever learned from love

Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you - …

And it's not a cry you can hear at night

It's not somebody who's seen the light      [Chorus]

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah   (/B) (x2)