Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)

This song is about the dark side of love. Especially when you've been in a close relationship you think will never end, then somehow you lose it and you have no idea how it happened. Love begins hopeful, then problems occur, then bickering begins, who's right, whose wrong. You draw apart until it completely breaks.

First Verse: King Saul of Israel was under distress, He had David as a young man come in and play music and that was the only thing that soothed King Saul. Meaning: But you don't really care for music do ya, in relationships it's not always easy to sooth the one you love with words or deeds. Sometimes the other person doesn't want consolation.

Second Verse: There are two biblical references in this verse. David is now King and he sees Bathsheba bathing from his roof top at night and just had to have her, though she was married. This means lust. It lead to nothing but problems the rest of David's lifetime because of his acting on it. The second is Samson and Delilah. Samson knew Delilah was using emotional warfare on Samson to learn from where he attained his power and strength. She would tell him he hated her because he wouldn't share this information. Samson broke down and told her it was his long hair that had never been cut that gave him his power because. He told her because loved her so much and he couldn't take the crying anymore, she wore him down. She had men come in and cut his hair, he lost his power, and it led to a tragic end for him. Meaning: Love has a beautiful side to it, but also a dark side. It can bring joy, but mostly pain. Especially when your loved one turns on you.

Third Verse: Now this is getting into personal relationships. We have experience with relationships with others, we also know what it means to be alone. But sometimes when in a close relationship, when how you feel is the most important thing and you don't take note of how another person feels; you must always be right and justified, love turns to pain and loneliness.

Fourth Verse: Lack of communication kills relationships. When communication breaks down you push each other away. It didn't start off like that, it started off with both in so much love. What went wrong?

Fifth Verse: Love is painful. When you experience pain after pain, you can become damaged, you kill relationships when you see them going sour instead of trying to fix them before the other person beats you to it. Pride prevents you to let that happen. Instead of seeing the problems in relationships and tackling them head on, we often let them break. Then love becomes a cold and broken hallelujah.