I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
cnd from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

Now maybe there's a God above,
 as for me, all I ever learned from love
 is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you'll hear tonight,
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light

It's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

Years ago, standing next to you,
You've left and I've found nothin' new
But you never really cared for happy endings, did you?
Now all I have are memories that haunt me through my waking dreams
c nightmarish, a shattered, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below,
But now, now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember, when I moved in you,
cnd the holy dove, she was moving too,
cnd every single breath that we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

I did my best, I know it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I learned to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come here just to fool you
cnd even though it all went wrong
I'll stand right here before the Lord of Song
With nothing, nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

My killer, this is the final encore
You've always made it through my locked up door
But you never seem to really kill me, do you?
I've pondered it, our little game, can we make a deal, can I make a change?
Or have you already torn the page of Hallelujah?
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah