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This is probably one of the best songs ever written, and one of the most covered. Depending on the take of the performer, it could either be very sexual or very religious, which, in my book makes this one hell of song. So, maybe there's a God above, and all I have learned from love is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you... These are my top 20 versions of Hallelujah!
Now I've heard there was a secret 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, the major lift - The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Baby I have been here before I know this room, I've walked this floor I used to live alone before I knew you. I've seen your flag on the marble arch Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
There was a time you let me know what's really going on below But now you never show it to me, do you? And remember when I moved in you The holy dark was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above, And all I ever learned from love was How to shoot at someone who outdrew you And it's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light, it's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah
This week, a salute to all you angels out there: heavenly angels, earthly angels, fallen angels, angels & demons, lost angels, sexy angels, lusty angels, helping angels, wingless angels, pure and innocent angels, etc. This is for you, these are your songs, this is your music.
1. Robbie Williams – Angels
And through it all she offers me protection / a lot of love and affection / whether I’m right or wrong / and down the waterfall wherever it may take me / I know that life wont break me / when I come to call she wont forsake me / I’m loving angels instead
2. Juice Newton – Angel of the Morning
Just call me angel of the morning, angel / Just touch my cheek before you leave me / Baby / Just call me angel of the morning, angel / Then slowly turn away from me
3. Aerosmith – Angel
You're my angel / Come and save me tonight / You're my angel / Come and make it all right
4. Nightwish – I Wish I Had an Angel
I wish I had an angel for one moment of love / I wish I had your angel / Your Virgin Mary undone I’m in love with my lust / Burning angel wings to dust / I wish I had your angel tonight
5. Willie Nelson – Angels Flying To Close to the Ground
If you had not have fallen / Then I would not have found you / Angel flying too close to the ground / And I patched up your broken wing / And hung around a while / Tried to keep your spirits up / And your fever down
6. U2 – If God Will Send His Angels
If God will send his angels / And if God will send a sign / And if God will send his angels would everything be alright?
7. Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
And I'd give up forever to touch you / Cause I know that you feel me somehow / You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be / And I don't want to go home right now
8. Vince Gill & Trisha Yearwood – Another Angel Gets Its Wings
For each and every bell that rings / Another angel gets his wings / So show you care and share your light / And help an angel fly tonight
9. The Penguins - Earth Angel
Earth angel, Earth angel Will you be mine? / My darling dear / Love you all the time / I’m just a fool, / A fool in love, with you
10. Fire Inc. – Tonight It’s What it Means to be Young
But I don't see any angels in the city / I don't hear any holy choirs sing And if I can't get an angel I can still get a boy / And a boy would be the next best thing The next best thing to an angel / A boy would be the next best thing
11. Scorpions – Send me an Angel
The wise man said just find your place in the eye of the storm / Seek the roses along the way/ Just beware of the thorns / Here I am / Will you send me an angel? / Here I am / in the land of the morning star
12. Orquesta Mondragon – Angel Pecador
Ángel, tan peligrosa, tan infantil. / Ángel, le gusta verme sufrir. / Ángel, nunca me dices que sí, ni que no. / Ángel, juega con mi excitación./ ¡Dame tus labios de caramelo! / ¡Vamos juntos al séptimo cielo! / Yo soy tu Ángel…Ángel pecador.
13. Melissa Etheridge – Angels Would Fall
Angels never came down / There’s no one here they want to hang around / But if they knew / If they knew you at all / Then one by one the angels / Angels would fall
14. Celine Dion – I’m Your Angel
I'll be your cloud up in the sky / I'll be your shoulder when you cry / I'll hear your voices when you call / I am your angel / And when all hope is gone, I'm here / No matter how far you are, I'm near / It makes no difference who you are / I am your angel / I'm your angel..
15. Rammstein – Engels
Angels live, they never die / Apart from us, behind the sky / They're fading souls who' ve turned to ice / So ashen white in paradise
16. Shaggy – Angel
Girl, you're my angel, you're my darling angel / Closer than my peeps you are to me, baby / Shorty, you're my angel, you're my darling angel / Girl, you're my friend when I'm in need, lady
17. Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - Fallen Angel
Fallen angel, I'll forgive you anything / You can't help the things you do
18. Alejandra Guzmán – Cuidado con el Corazón
Ten cuidado con el Corazón / aquí abajo en este mundo material / te defiendes o te van a destrozar por nada / Ten cuidado con el corazón / con las alas y con todo lo demás / un descuido y te pueden desplumar / ¡Alerta!
19. Black Crows – She Talks to Angels
Says she talks to angels / they call her out by her name / She talks to angels / Says they call her out by her name
20. Angel – Sarah McLachlan
In the arms of an angel / Fly away from here / From this dark cold hotel room / And the endlessness that you fear / You are pulled from the wreckage / Of your silent reverie / You're in the arms of the angel / May you find some comfort there
Holy Week is just around the corner, and, to me, it is a time of reflection. None of these songs are gospel - these are regular rock and country songs (and some of them may be surprising choices) but I think they can all help you reflect if you are into that kind of thing. Now, just don't go eating pork rinds on Good Friday... je je je
1. Ricardo Arjona - Jesus, Verbo No Sustantivo
2. Jesus Christ Superstar - Heaven on their Minds
3. John Michael Montgomery - The Little Girl
4. Mago de Oz - La Cantata del Diablo
5. Jesus Christ Superstar - Gethsemane
6. Jesus Christ Superstar -The Last Supper
7. Mago de Oz - Jesus de Chamberí
8. Poison - Something to Believe in
9. Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses
10. Carrie Underwood - Jesus Take the Wheel
11. Genesis - Jesus He Knows me
12. Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
13. Ray Stevens - Would Jesus wear a Rolex?
14. U2 - Pride in the Name of Love
15. Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
