I heard there was a sacred 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 and the major lift

The baffled king composing hallelujah...

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty in the moonlight overthrough you

She tied you to her kitchen chair

She broke your throne and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the hallelujah...

Maybe i've been here before

I've seen this room and i've walked this floor

I used to live alone before I knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch

But love is not a victory march

It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah...

There was a time when you let me know

What's really going on below

But now you never show that to me, do you?

Remember when I moved in you

And the holy dove was moving too

And every breath we drew was hallelujah...

Maybe there's a god above

But all i've ever learned from love

Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you

It's not a cry that you hear tonight

It's not somebody who's seen the light

It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah...