Comments on: Lyrics make me cry hallelujah http://www.larryhnetka.com/wordpress/archives/2006/07/24/lyrics-make-me-cry-hallelujah/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: jesse atkins http://www.larryhnetka.com/wordpress/archives/2006/07/24/lyrics-make-me-cry-hallelujah/#comment-7122 jesse atkins Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:45:38 +0000 http://www.larryhnetka.com/wordpress/?p=1257#comment-7122 While i believe that there can be endless debate on the menaing of this song I don't believe that it can be debated as to wether this is poetry or pop lyrics. There are too many cultural, historical and sociological references contained in the song for it to have been written without thought. And really that is all poetry is. words that have been arranged due our reflections (thoughts) on something. The fact that there is thought involved necessitates tha thought being focussed. Q.E.D it must be poetry. personally my intepretation of the song is that it is about the great tragedy that while we have the seed of greatness, beauty and grace within us we are corrupted/swayed by monotony and heartbreak that we all experience. To put it into terms of the song we all have the holy hallelujah in our minds but all we can actually sing is the broken version. Oh well.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> While i believe that there can be endless debate on the menaing of this song I don’t believe that it can be debated as to wether this is poetry or pop lyrics. There are too many cultural, historical and sociological references contained in the song for it to have been written without thought. And really that is all poetry is. words that have been arranged due our reflections (thoughts) on something. The fact that there is thought involved necessitates tha thought being focussed. Q.E.D it must be poetry.

personally my intepretation of the song is that it is about the great tragedy that while we have the seed of greatness, beauty and grace within us we are corrupted/swayed by monotony and heartbreak that we all experience.

To put it into terms of the song we all have the holy hallelujah in our minds but all we can actually sing is the broken version.

Oh well.

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