I have a song in my head

[nashmaveric]

It's by Jeff Buckley I think? Or was it Leonard Cohen. I'm pretty sure it's Jeff Buckley but I'm at work and they blocked all the lyrics pages and youtube so I can't check. The good thing is they are not familiar with livejournal so I still have you guys ::waves at flist::

Anyway, it's the one that goes-

I heard there was a secret chord

Comments

[entrenous88]

Leonard Cohen wrote it, though Jeff Buckley did a great cover of it (and it's been covered by a bunch of terrific singers since then). Rufus Wainwright's version might be my favorite these days

[nashmaveric]

Oh brilliant! ::beams:: Thanks! I think the one I remember is the Jeff Buckley one. It literally made me cry but it was amazing to listen to.

[felisblanco]

Cohen wrote like 15 pages of lyrics to it which is why different performers don't always sing the same ones. There's a very interesting article about the song here on Wikipedia.

[nashmaveric]

I should have thought of Wikipedia! It's not blocked or anything!

I seem to favour the Jeff Buckley version, which I think is the very definition of fragile. I shall look for other covers to listen to once the niece and nephew go home. As it is, having a 'nearly-four!'year old and a two year old wandering about makes it very difficult to listen to anything that's not them ::grin::

[electricalgwen]

In related news, Leonard Cohen just won the Glenn Gould prize and promptly donated it to the Canadian Council for the Arts. What a man. <3