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369a40a	Needless to say, the song ["Hallelujah"] was now a climax in every show [of the 2009 Leonard Cohen tour], received like holy scripture. It belonged in a category with seeing Bob Dylan sing "Like a Rolling Stone" or watching Bruce Springsteen perform "Born to Run"--it was an event that people simply wanted to witness, to say they had seen. It took on a power that had to do with the song's history first, its feeling second, and its details ha..	2012 bob-dylan bruce-springsteen hallelujah leonard-cohen magnum-opus-quotes	Alan Light
66cc591	Though most cultural observers hadn't noticed it yet, everything was now in place for "Hallelujah" to sweep through the pop landscape. It was a song that had multiple strong, emotional connections with millions of listeners. Its mood was both fixed and malleable, universal and specific. It was familiar enough to resonate, obscure enough to remain cool. Though its most celebrated performer was gone forever, its mysterious creator had come ba..	2012 9-11 hallelujah jeff-buckley leonard-cohen pop-music touchstone	Alan Light
62770c2	It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse--'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!"		Alan Light
8b166ec	Trained as a classical pianist, she was often called a jazz singer, but it was a label she deeply resented, seeing in it only a racial classification. She grudgingly accepted the popular nickname "the High Priestess of Soul" but gave it little significance. If anything, she claimed, she was a folk singer, and her dazzling, unpredictable repertoire--Israeli folk tunes, compositions by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, songs by the Bee Gees and ..		Alan Light
4bc5278	For I light my candle from their torches.		Light
aab9f23	And God said: "Let there be light," and there was light.		Light
e7b0365	There is strong shadow where there is much light.		Light
a9d2d26	Nations will go to your light		Light
426cbed	With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.		Light
20e6a2e	Dark with excessive bright.		Light
43a513d	In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.		Light
262d9fd	I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.		Light
d232fe9	And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.		Light
c864bba	Blasted with excess of light.		Light
2fc5ed6	Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.		Light
8a49186	The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.		Light
b1277e5	He was a burning and a shining light		Light
57e0cff	Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.		Light
fa3e5d3	The Light that Failed.		Light
6ba692e	Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom.		Light
7536e0a	Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?		Light
7b662ba	Those having lamp will pass them on to others.		Light
982065c	Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.		Light
20e8ab7	But it is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.		Light
a2aca32	'Twas a light that madeA thing of comfort.		Light
e4c2dd4	Where God and Nature met in light.		Light
e1170ea	A remnant of uneasy light.		Light
877d56c	The light that never was on sea or land,The consecration, and the poet's dream.		Light
0f8563d	Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity.		Speed of light
c0da62e	I suppose you wouldn't happen to know the way out of the forest, possibly, by any chance?"		The Light Fantastic
ee32fdc	Weems might have had a room-temperature IQ, but he knew idiocy when he saw it.		The Light Fantastic
96d2c4c	Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.		The Light Fantastic
13a41d3	Darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simply its absence.		The Light Fantastic
b917bf9	Ankh-Morpork!		The Light Fantastic
e0d2287	Radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side of darkness, the light fantastic.		The Light Fantastic

369a40a

Needless to say, the song ["Hallelujah"] was now a climax in every show [of the 2009 Leonard Cohen tour], received like holy scripture. It belonged in a category with seeing Bob Dylan sing "Like a Rolling Stone" or watching Bruce Springsteen perform "Born to Run"--it was an event that people simply wanted to witness, to say they had seen. It took on a power that had to do with the song's history first, its feeling second, and its details ha..

2012 bob-dylan bruce-springsteen hallelujah leonard-cohen magnum-opus-quotes

Alan Light

66cc591

Though most cultural observers hadn't noticed it yet, everything was now in place for "Hallelujah" to sweep through the pop landscape. It was a song that had multiple strong, emotional connections with millions of listeners. Its mood was both fixed and malleable, universal and specific. It was familiar enough to resonate, obscure enough to remain cool. Though its most celebrated performer was gone forever, its mysterious creator had come ba..

2012 9-11 hallelujah jeff-buckley leonard-cohen pop-music touchstone

Alan Light

62770c2

It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse--'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!"

Alan Light

8b166ec

Trained as a classical pianist, she was often called a jazz singer, but it was a label she deeply resented, seeing in it only a racial classification. She grudgingly accepted the popular nickname "the High Priestess of Soul" but gave it little significance. If anything, she claimed, she was a folk singer, and her dazzling, unpredictable repertoire--Israeli folk tunes, compositions by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, songs by the Bee Gees and ..