Show High - SotW [Week of 11-1-09]

I'm not sure if I get more excited when a great artist kicks ass at their own original work or when they do an amazing job of re-crafting someone else's... John Wozniak pretty much blew my mind last night when he started belting Cohen's Hallelujah. It was nothing less than a great moment. Whether Leonard, Rufus (probably my favorite rendition of the song), Bon Jovi, K.D. Lang or even Wozniak, this song is timeless and one of my all time favorites. And WOW, it's seriously November? Halloween was killer, Vancouver was definitely the place to be.

SotW 11/1:
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen

Now 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

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

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, 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

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time 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

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

[Leonard version:]
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

[Rufus version:]
Maybe there's a God above,
and all I ever learned from love
was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And its not a cry you can hear at night,
its not somebody who's seen the light,
its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttv5dyvtF4o
Rufus Wainwright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbQEQltOwM
Bon Jovi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRPfCRV2xI
K.D. Lang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE
John Wozniak (of Marcy Playground): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBd0gm9LIz8

Original Post Date: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:25am