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"Hallelujah" the born again cover

So, here's the story behind Hallelujah the "born again cover." This is the first time I've recorded it but I actually did the lyrical rewrite a few years ago. At the time, everyone was doing this song (the original is by Leonard Cohen). Eileen really loved it and asked if I could learn it. I thought it was a pretty song, too. I had never really paid attention to the lyrics but what I found out was that the song Hallelujah, name not withstanding, had nothing really to do with God. Leonard Cohen uses the Biblical story of David to allegorize failed love. The viewpoint person in the song has had their heart so broken that they have lost their "hallelujah" or in other words, they no longer had joy in life. I wanted to learn it and to please my wife but really didn't want to sing it as it was. Not a moral judgement. That's just not where I've chosen to go with my music. So the solution was to take it and rewrite it as song of praise which the title would imply. In the rewrite I was careful to respect the flow and pattern of the original composition while making it something of my own. More importantly, I hope it's something of God's own.