geeterpicker
Junior Member
A family member with good intentions posted something on FB yesterday that stunned me. It was a version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah done by something I'd never heard of called The Voice. The singers held cards of the murdered kids and teachers in Connecticut. While I think that song is beautiful and spellbinding, I thought it was painfully misrepresented in the context of murdered children. If people really knew what the song was about, they might feel as creeped out as I did. I held my breath when they started the second verse, because I wondered how they would reconcile the lyrics about being tied to the chair, but instead they jumped to the final verse Cohen wrote. Has anyone else seen it and did you react the same way I did? I am amazed sometimes that people can be so overwhelmed by a melody that they don't hear the lyrics. Sting used to remark how creeped out he got when people would start holding hands and hugging when he sang Every Breath You Take, which is a song about stalking and surveillence.