Okay, before I forget to say this, I have to mention that I think Rufus is really hot...I want to send out thanks to Delamarter, Stef, Bitchgodess and ArcherAve. Totally agree. I get all of these interpretations, and I'm totally broken when I think of King David, who is one of my favorite people in the Bible. I love that the sexuality in this song is portrayed as a sacred thing. (I also have to smile when I hear Buckley's rendition, because of the repeated emphasis on the phrase "do yuh?") My favorite part in the song is when Cohen speaks of the "...minor fall, the majorlift, the baffled king composing allelujah...". To me it says that everything can be forgiven, that love is ineffable. Mercy, in turn, is ineffable, and so beautiful. When I listen to the song, I picture David on his knees before his wife, at his throne composing his psalms with tears running down his face, trying hard to express a grateful and broken hallelujah. Being broken and mistaken and betrayed is definitely nothing like a victory march or as simple as seeing the light. It is imperfect relationships being called to perfection by accepting eachother and everything about that person. What a mystery. I have just entered into my first relationship, and I'm beginning to understand what it is to really love someone, and about falling and being lifted up again. That is much cause for an hallelujah. Anyway, thats all I have to say about that. Does anyone else thing Rufus is hot?
Okay, before I forget to say this, I have to mention that I think Rufus is really hot...I want to send out thanks to Delamarter, Stef, Bitchgodess and ArcherAve. Totally agree. I get all of these interpretations, and I'm totally broken when I think of King David, who is one of my favorite people in the Bible. I love that the sexuality in this song is portrayed as a sacred thing. (I also have to smile when I hear Buckley's rendition, because of the repeated emphasis on the phrase "do yuh?") My favorite part in the song is when Cohen speaks of the "...minor fall, the majorlift, the baffled king composing allelujah...". To me it says that everything can be forgiven, that love is ineffable. Mercy, in turn, is ineffable, and so beautiful. When I listen to the song, I picture David on his knees before his wife, at his throne composing his psalms with tears running down his face, trying hard to express a grateful and broken hallelujah. Being broken and mistaken and betrayed is definitely nothing like a victory march or as simple as seeing the light. It is imperfect relationships being called to perfection by accepting eachother and everything about that person. What a mystery. I have just entered into my first relationship, and I'm beginning to understand what it is to really love someone, and about falling and being lifted up again. That is much cause for an hallelujah. Anyway, thats all I have to say about that. Does anyone else thing Rufus is hot?