Sine Curve

[spangletigress]

So I've decided that the best way to describe my life is with a mathematical principle; every day is a sine curve. I wake up and hope there's a reason for it, wishing I could remain in my lovely dream all day. Then, as the day gets going and I become busy and see people, I am able to really enjoy life, and I get caught up in the "wow, this is so

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[ferrocene]

My life isn't a series of sine curves. It's a series of tangents.

Halleluja isn't a bad song to have on a loop, although I prefer the late-great Jeff Buckley's version to Rufus's. The Rufus song I loop is Agnus Dei; much more inspirational, YMMV.

Thanks for the link, BTW! I didn't know RW did the song.

[spangletigress]

Ooh, that sounds much more disorienting than mine... I'm sorry.

Well, possibly you simply prefer the version you heard first? I'll check out Buckley's, though, to be able to compare! All for authenticity, I'm not always a huge fan of covers, but some aren't bad, and some are even better than the originals, so I won't discount Buckley's "Hallelujah" until I've heard it.

Yeah, songza is an amazing site. The only thing is that a lot of the tracks are live versions, and you have to sort through those and the crappy recordings to find a good, crisp original. Enjoy it!

[ferrocene]

The song has its own Wikipedia page. It's been covered many, many times. I really don't like the original, and Rufus's is a relatively new addition.

Jeff Buckley's cover is one of the more popular: watch the video.

[anonymous]

In defense of Leonard Cohen's original version, the lyrics are incomparable. John Cale cut out a couple of verses from the end of the original, and almost everybody since then has played the John Cale version. The original ended like this:

"You say I took the name in vain.
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word.
It doesn't matter which you heard,
The holy or the broken Hallelujah.

I did my best; it wasn't much.
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch.
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah."

I'll never understand why he cut those two out. For me, the whole song loses its meaning.

[spangletigress]

Wow... You're right... Without those, the audience has no sense of his purpose, and it ends with him saying that love taught him only how to be mean. But this conclusion explains why and makes it deeper than just a failed-love song...

Thank you!