I mean, I don’t know, what am I to pit the US, but from history I’ve learned that (a certain subgroup of) Americans are too dumb to interpret song lyrics beyond the chorus. See “Born In The USA”, “Fortunate Son”, "Rock The Casbah (!!! WTF!!!) and so on…
And with that out of my system, I have to add that I like the original song and some of the covers, those that don’t take it as a hymn. Jeff Buckley’s version is certainly not meant religiously.
This is not accurate. There are many versions, but so far as I’m aware there are only two lines that refer to Bathsheba:
So the focus seems to be solely on the fact that David fell for her so badly that he murdered her husband to get her. Unless there’s some other part I’m unaware of that refers to their child?
There are other references to biblical women, certainly Delilah and possibly Mary.
I don’t see this at all. The references to biblical women all have some kind of negative connotation, and then how about this verse that Cohen often included:
There’s just no way this can be called a religious song, even with your caveats.
Leonard Cohen, the Rod McKuen of despair.
No, but his sixth cousin, once removed. Seriously.
I actually rather like Kate McKinnon’s “Hallelujah” from the Election Week 2016 cold open on SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec
Made a very trying week a bit more bearable for three minutes. Ditto the “To Sir With Love” dedicated to Obama that SNL did.
Happy Hollandaise, SDMB.
You pick a phrase, you pick a rhyme,
Repeat the sound another time,
Five iambs, then an extra beat will do ya.
Another rhyme, a rising note -
Congratulations, you just wrote
Another goddamn verse to Hallelujah.
(stolen from Facebook)
I heard there was a secret chord
That Data played and it pleased the Borg,
But you don’t really care for androids, do ya?
It goes like this: the Borg, the Sith,
The crossover movie and the budget shift,
And a baffled fandom crying Hallelujah!
(Stolen from Facebook Messenger)
Add “Hello” by Lionel Richie.
The lyrics are totally about a creeper who is perving all over some poor unsuspecting lady.
I don’t know how often it gets played there, but I heard it once at my brother’s church at the Easter Vigil (Catholic church, night before Easter). Of course, the lyrics were changed but the chorus was not. My brother and I were pretty shocked, and so was mom once we told her to check out the original song.
I can’t relax now that I have jabbed pencils into my ears.
Would you call Led Zeppelin’s “Battle of Evermore” and “Ramble On” Tolkien-informed?
Thank you! I haven’t seen the film and won’t. I am personally acquainted with someone he used. He was not interested in the child that resulted (yes, she was at fault, too–this was back before The Pill and she was young and stupid. He was old and Not Stupid), and when she told LC, he allowed as how there were other children scattered around that he was also not interested in. This is hearsay, gossip (although from a primary source), may not be gospel truth, so don’t sue me. But it has colored my opinion of the Man (and I can’t separate that from the Songwriter), so I’ve never gotten in line to worship him with the rest of the world.
Never swim with shoes on.
So you hate “Hello” by Lionel Richie and “Last Christmas” by WHAM!, do you? So you think all songs should be about people who meet the one they’ll be in love with forever and quickly get together with that person? Or, if they do break up with them, it will be a happy break-up where neither partner is hurt (you know, a “conscious uncoupling”). When you meet someone new and fall in love with them, that will wipe out all memory of the first love. You will never find yourself wondering if you made a mistake in breaking up with the first one, and these thoughts will never mess up your relationship with the second one. You will never spend years (or even your entire life) hoping to get somewhere with one of the people you see and would like to get together with but are rejected or ignored by all of them. Nor will you be plagued by any of the other problems that love brings. Wow, I congratulate you on the wonderfulness of your life. You shouldn’t have to listen to songs about anything except perfection in love. How dare singers and songwriters bother you with their problems!
Why would anyone need a blackboard nailed down for them? They don’t tend to perambulate, IME.
Aw I just gonna go mumble and moan and stomp my way out of this thread anyway.
And while we’re on the subject (well, we’re back on it now, at least), the lyrics to the Temptations classic “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” are creepy AF. Beautiful song … until you stop and think about the words. (Not gonna try to link to a lyrics page from this crappy Tapatalk app, but I trust any curious readers can find such without much difficulty.)
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You know that there is a long tradition of reusing music with new lyrics, right? For instance *Greensleeves *which is about the village girl everyone knows (or alternatively the creepy village stalker) became What Child is This?.
What thread did you mistake this one for, I wonder.
I don’t know if Wendell’s version of SDMB sets the threads to music, but he doesn’t appear to be reading the lyrics.