Problem
Listen to the amazing song on YouTube "Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Live In London)" by Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah.
Here are some questions to consider in your analysis:
a) What does the author mean when he writes: 'Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, The minor fall, the major lift?'
b) Who is David and what chord is he playing? Why? For whom?
c) What is going on in the second stanza? Whom did he see on the roof?
d) What emotions are being portrayed?
e) Whom is the author talking with/to? Does the rhythm change from 1st person to 2nd person? What effect does that have?
f) What has the author learned from love? How do you interpret the connection to G-d?
g) What rhetorical devices can you find in these lyrics? What effect do they have?
h) What other thoughts or reflections you may have on these deep words?