Did you know there were two different versions of Hallujah? There's the Jeff Buckley version as per the Shrek soundtrack - it's a song about love gone wrong and overall, paints love as something that is always depressing and bad.
Then there's the original Leonard Cohen version. It's got the same two first verses - setting up the metaphor for love as music, but then it changes. Where the other one is a bitter hymn to how bad love is - the Cohen version is defiantly of the opinion that while this love went bad, when he meets his maker, at least he will know he gave love a try. Not love as always bad, but as always worth trying for. It's amazing to me how it changes the whole song.
Cohen version is the one I loved and knew, couldn't remember it, found the Buckley version, was always feeling that the song was 'off' and now that I found the Cohen version, I can get it out of my head.
Cohen - two bits -
3rd verse (bit)
"There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah "
4th verse (bit)
"And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"
Buckely -
entire 4th verse
"well, 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 at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah"
On another note - Never running another game again. Some people have the talent, and some people suck with a giant S. I am in the latter category.
I gave it a shot, too long of a shot, and now am done. It's kinda a relief.
But it does mean no Eberron campaign.
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