Another Song: “Hallelujah” from Jeff Buckley

He sighs. It isn’t on this video, but at the start of the album version of this song, Jeff Buckley sighs.

And I don’t really know why? Is he bored? He is in pain?

He could be, but how?

This is literally the most beautiful song in the world. Someone give credit to Leonard Cohen for writing it. Someone give credit to Jeff Buckley for perfecting it.

The song is magnificent. The way Buckley plays it, the way he sings it, gives it so much suspense and power and intensity. The song, Buckley’s version of the song, contains so much meaning, so much importance and so much fucking love. It should never stop playing.

I cannot comprehend what he does in the first 30 seconds of the song. He’s playing around on the guitar, just flipping through some chords and then, majestically, like a sun rising over the horizon, the melody appears. Then it’s just brilliance.

Simple brilliance.

And then, at the end of the song, we hear it. "Wow."

That's all that needs to be said.