{"id":7491,"date":"2018-12-20T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/12\/20\/a-performance-of-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-on-the-old-city-walls"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:05:37","slug":"a-performance-of-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-on-the-old-city-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/12\/20\/a-performance-of-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-on-the-old-city-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"A Performance of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; on the Old City Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/spMryeSneJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>A live recording from\u00a0the light show on the walls of the Old City celebrating the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/spMryeSneJE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video <\/a>features\u00a0a collaboration of some of Israel&#8217;s most famous artists singing an emotive cover of the late Leonard Cohen&#8217;s iconic song, &#8220;Hallelujah.&#8221; The artists, who sang the song in both Hebrew and English, include Eviatar Banai, David D&#8217;or and Sarit Hadad. One of the most popular and beloved songs in Israel, &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; is often associated with Jerusalem, as it references the biblical story of King David and Batsheba, which took place in Jerusalem. For a comprehensive\u00a0analysis of the English lyrics, provided below, <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Leonard-cohen-hallelujah-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Hallelujah<\/h3>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve heard there was a secret chord<br \/>\nThat David played, and it pleased the Lord<br \/>\nBut you don&#8217;t really care for music, do you?<br \/>\nIt goes like this, the fourth, the fifth<br \/>\nThe minor fall, the major lift<br \/>\nThe baffled king composing &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nHallelujah, Hallelujah<br \/>\nHallelujah, Hallelujah<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nYour faith was strong but you needed proof<br \/>\nYou saw her bathing on the roof<br \/>\nHer beauty and the moonlight overthrew you<br \/>\nShe tied you to a kitchen chair<br \/>\nShe broke your throne\u00a0and she cut your hair<br \/>\nAnd from your lips she drew the Hallelujah<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nHallelujah, Hallelujah<br \/>\nHallelujah, Hallelujah<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nBaby I have been here before<br \/>\nI know this room, I&#8217;ve walked this floor<br \/>\nI used to live alone before I knew you<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen your flag on the marble arch<br \/>\nLove is not a victory march<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a cold and it&#8217;s a broken Hallelujah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A live recording from\u00a0the light show on the walls of the Old City celebrating the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, this video features\u00a0a collaboration of some of Israel&#8217;s most famous artists singing an emotive cover of the late Leonard Cohen&#8217;s iconic song, &#8220;Hallelujah.&#8221; The artists, who sang the song in both Hebrew and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":7492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[1643,1711],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/7526\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7492\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}