I heard it for the first time after a night spent by my sister-in-law's bed, with a brain tumor, and while I was driving tears began to flow and I perceived so strong the presence of God that I had a sneaky feeling a miracle would have happened ... That miracle didn't happen, two years have passed, we try to take care of your wonderful four children, the best we can, but every time I listen to it I think to you Mary ... May God bless you wherever you are Sister
I think the miracle was in her being with you another 2 years. I apologize if I'm overstepping my bounds, I just wanted to convey that possibility to you. I am very truly sorry about your sister-in-law's transition. It sounds like you have a wonderful guardian looking out for you now though. 🤍
The miracle you were expecting didn't happen here, but the moment that Mary passed she was in the Awesome presence of our GOD and King, and very likely unable to do anything, but sing Hallelujah..... GOD bless, protect and heal you, in His Holy Name, amen
I heard of Mr Cohen's death yesterday and immediately thought of this song and performance by this lady. Thank you Mr Cohen for leaving the world such a beautiful gift. May your soul rest in peace Sir.
Jaime eclair Mr. Corn. Is. in. peace. the. Last. day. L. Jesus. Came. He. will. Rise. with. Jesus. to. Heaven.The. Holy. Spirit. will. Console. his. Family. and. Friends. Hallelujah,AMEM.
June 2021, Who's still watching? This song fills me up with profound positivity and I hope it does the same to you❤ P.S- coming back here after 2 years, and the kind of energy this song fills me up with, is unmatched and unparalleled. Tough covid times, I pray that each one of you out there beat it and stand stronger than ever!!
Simon was a nearly speechless. The previous year he sent her home. This night he told her, that was phenomenal. I have watched this performance numerous times and listened to her delivering this flawless classic with passion and perfection. She always leaves me spellbound as the greatest rendition ever.
You know a performance is incredible when it sounds better than the recorded version. Alexandra should be so proud - this is one of the BEST X Factor performances ever!!
I listen to this version because it is the best. Merry Christmas Alexandra I STOPPED "HAPPY HOLIDAYS" INCLUDING Merry Christmas AND MY BIRTHDAY WHEN I MET HOLYDAY JESUS. GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS BEFORE IS LATE. RELIGION CANNOT SAVE YOU. JAMES 4:4.
Now that the great composer is gone, this song will become an anthem of love for the whole world and perhaps the most covered song ever. R.I.P. Mr.Cohen.
:) I used perhaps only because I didn't want a debate on that matter but I believe you're right. All those talent shows like the voice and x-factor in all their versions around the world offer at least one adaptation of that song in every seasons.
Denis Qallija Yes I know it's my favorite because of the way he played the guitar, he made it sound so ethereal, the intro alone takes you right into the mood. It's the cover that made the song popular along the movie Shreck and then the lady here inspired a lot of women to try it right along the K.D. Lang version. I Checked the new covers with a simple search by date, it's totally crazy, there used to be a sea of covers for that song now it's becoming a deep ocean :) Plus some covers do not even appear in the search page because they are covers of covers that do not mention the author, a bit sad. So the craziest thing here is that the most covered song will also have the most covered covers....(lol)
My husband loved this song and the way Alexandra sang it, Rest in Peace Stuart, I listen to it daily as it helps me get through the grief process. Tears still flow and always will. I loved you more then life itself and still do and always will.
This is by far the best rendition of this song I've ever heard, even the original from the original singer. she delivered the best performance ever! powerful!
How could 23 souls not approve of this beautiful song. This is an excellent version. Whenever I need a bit of peace from this awful world I listen in. Thanks for sharing this with us ✝️
Absolutely phenomenal.. Keep coming back to this version. One of the best EVER. She sounds and looks like a heavenly angel. My goodness!!! gives me goosebumps every time!
wbaxm5 nie przejmuj sie nie jestes sam. Ja tez z twardego faceta zrobilem sie takie dziecko jak uslyszalem ta piosenke. Po prostu mistrzostwo SWIATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real it’s impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES!
I literally cried at the end and got goosebumps throughout the whole listening. My God, this song combined to her voice is just something out of the world.. I'd say it's ethereal.
I m an Indian n hindu by religion trust me God is beyond religion . Whatever we sing for him as a hymn gives power no matter who u r n from which country n cast u belong
BRO,I grew up with Leonhard cohen,One of the best singer, songwriter this World ever was facing. I hear his music AND of course halleluja, every day.and i will..until Lord of song calls me Home.god bless all those ,finding Peace in this song.
Dear Lord have mercy on all of us during this time of a devastating virus in 2020. Please God save those suffering, sick, in pain and grieving. Give never ending grace and strength to all those trying to save others. In Jesus precious name I pray. Amen.
EBlu3 NeCr0 5 years in childrens choir, hunty. And where am I saying that she cant sing? What Im saying is that her theatrical and overly affected way of singing ruins this song. So stfu.
I heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya? Well, it goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya She tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who'd outdrew ya And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not someone who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Thank you for reading. I recorded a cover from this wonderful song. It means a lot to me if you listen to it on my channel! 😊
*Hallelujah* (My original lyrics below in response to the performance. Apologies to Jeff Buckley and Leonard Cohen ) Wow, is amazing. I've never heard of somebody sing a song too well before , but she did. This song was always meant for a gospel soul treatment, and she did it perfectly. It was beautiful and _never broken_ . And that's why she failed. The explicitly song calls for "brokenness" . Hallelujah is a beautiful and a terrible song. It takes you to the time of greatest love through some of the times of greatest pain. But her voice takes you from Wonder thru triumph to healing. But the song says the Opposite: "And love is not a victory march" She sung a victory march. So she misses, ( violates , and sanitizes ) the whole purpose, of the song. "It's not somebody who's seen the light" Thats all Alexendra Burke sings. She does it well, but thats not what this song is about. *Hallelujah* This isn't the song. The words are here, the notes are too, But it's missing, the empty forlorn lost cry That means "I love you" Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah She forgot to add the ache and blues; get on your knees, beg for news: *What you've most lost for : Hallelujah!* hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah With no pain , just triumph and gain, A call to make all , as right as rain; She sings a solid victory hallelujah. ... Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah The breaking heart wants to breathe again, It know s her victory song will never reign on its Holy Broken Hallelujah . hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah. The missing piece, she put it back she thought she solved the hearts puzzle itself; and played a wholely unbroken hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah. But that empty space, we need it so, Even. Tho it aches below , And begs and screams and cries aloud: "I wish with you that I had died " : A holy Broken Hallelujah; Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
You´re so damn right... Of course she´s a good singer, but Buckleys version is out of this world...... Cohen has written the song (god bless him for that), and his version is amazing. But sorry, I have to repeat it: Buckley has made the greatest song of all time of it.
Chris Sim Its Buckley s song. He was true to the original but perfected it. You have to hear Buckley's version to hear how badly she screwed it up. You have to hear Buckley deliberately miss notes, to know she was supposed to show some strain. She is supposed to mix in humility vulnerability and frailty. It's in the Lyrics. Instead she was a diva and gave us glamour and narcissism.
***** ...I wish youtube had an idiot filter. Since you are generous to offer self-improvement tips Maybe , just maybe _you_ should actually read the original versions of the song leonard Cohen wrote, ** and then listen what Leonard Cohen said about what he meant. ** There are somethings large here that you are missing. The song was written TO proud people like you, over that exact reason: "You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light In every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah" www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-book-excerpt-leonard-cohen-writes-hallelujah-in-the-holy-or-the-broken-20121203 "I wanted to push the Hallelujah deep into the secular world, into the ordinary world," he once said. "The Hallelujah, the David's Hallelujah, was still a religious song. So I wanted to indicate that Hallelujah can come out of things that have nothing to do with religion." ***************** "Hallelujah" doesnt mean "I am great". It doesnt mean "I am proud" It doesnt mean "you are winning". It doesnt mean "I am a prince worship me" . If thats what you feel when you say it, maybe you are doing it wrong. ***** ( If you are lucky ) You are going to get sick, you are going to get old. You are going to lose all that you posses. probably in painful pieces. +Leonard Cohen song and +jeff Buckleys version speak to that.
This song reminds me of my grandmother....she passed away about 11 months ...and it was so hard for me to say her goodbye 😢💔 i love you grandma... wherever you are.....you raised me up...i own you my life...always in my thoughts and in my heart......25/2/48-4/8/19
Not goodbye for you are her legacy so laugh, love, taste the flavors and savor each breath for in that she lives on in gratitude and memory until you are united. That is the circle of life.
This is the best version of this song ✨ gives me goosebumps every time. Alexandra’s voice is anointed by the Lord, makes me want to cry. God has done so much for me 🙏🏾💕
Who’s here 2024❤❤❤
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For me, the best version of this song..
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Jeff...
So true
For me too I always come back here for it
She’s got a brilliant, powerful voice. Beautiful lyrics
I heard it for the first time after a night spent by my sister-in-law's bed, with a brain tumor, and while I was driving tears began to flow and I perceived so strong the presence of God that I had a sneaky feeling a miracle would have happened ...
That miracle didn't happen, two years have passed, we try to take care of your wonderful four children, the best we can, but every time I listen to it I think to you Mary ...
May God bless you wherever you are Sister
You are the miracle for the life of the four of them and many more. God bless you.
I think the miracle was in her being with you another 2 years. I apologize if I'm overstepping my bounds, I just wanted to convey that possibility to you. I am very truly sorry about your sister-in-law's transition. It sounds like you have a wonderful guardian looking out for you now though. 🤍
The miracle you were expecting didn't happen here, but the moment that Mary passed she was in the Awesome presence of our GOD and King, and very likely unable to do anything, but sing Hallelujah..... GOD bless, protect and heal you, in His Holy Name, amen
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Che dio vi benedica ❤
I heard of Mr Cohen's death yesterday and immediately thought of this song and performance by this lady. Thank you Mr Cohen for leaving the world such a beautiful gift. May your soul rest in peace Sir.
R.I.P Cohen
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Jaime eclair Mr. Corn. Is. in. peace. the. Last. day. L. Jesus. Came. He. will. Rise. with. Jesus. to. Heaven.The. Holy. Spirit. will. Console. his. Family. and. Friends. Hallelujah,AMEM.
June 2021, Who's still watching? This song fills me up with profound positivity and I hope it does the same to you❤
P.S- coming back here after 2 years, and the kind of energy this song fills me up with, is unmatched and unparalleled. Tough covid times, I pray that each one of you out there beat it and stand stronger than ever!!
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You know I’m still watching everyday
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I am
This was incredible. She should be so famous. She’s amazing. My favourite version of this song
Simply the best version ever, of an incredible masterpiece composed by an incredible composer, Leonard Cohen.
No one asked🖕
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Her version is always my favorite ♥️
10 years later and I still get goosebumps.
That's true 🥺
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2021who still listening ????? Like if you really care for music
Me hello.
Hallelujah!
Ja nadal.
BRAZIL I WAS here.
it hasn't expired, it's not yogurt
I love this song
Wow!
Amazing.
Wonderful powerful and so beautiful.
God bless you.
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I' am here 😊
Simon was a nearly speechless. The previous year he sent her home. This night he told her, that was phenomenal. I have watched this performance numerous times and listened to her delivering this flawless classic with passion and perfection. She always leaves me spellbound as the greatest rendition ever.
That wasn't Simon it was louey
beautiful voice
beautiful woman
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cláudiando BR
I'm in love ...
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You know a performance is incredible when it sounds better than the recorded version. Alexandra should be so proud - this is one of the BEST X Factor performances ever!!
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Even I do not understand all words Iam Moroccan This song stirs my emotion
this is my favorite version of this song
Same
Mine too❤
Her voice is just effortless so powerful ❤❤
No one can sing this song like Alexandra 🥰
Right?
Egyetértek,de hallgasd meg ha van kedved vagy nem ismered a Pentatonixtól
Angels can sing like Alexandra too!
Jeff Buckley🌝
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God help us from COVID-19🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
And Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates!!
Yes we Ned God for sure
I hope this song will be heard by God and will help the countries where there is COVID-19😢😢🙏🙏🙏
Yes god help us we' need you now more than ever
Corina Virus desiece 2019
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I listen to this version because it is the best. Merry Christmas Alexandra
And Merry Christmas to you.
sei brava
Totally agree 👍🏻
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I listen to this version because it is the best. Merry Christmas Alexandra I STOPPED "HAPPY HOLIDAYS" INCLUDING Merry Christmas AND MY BIRTHDAY WHEN I MET HOLYDAY JESUS. GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS BEFORE IS LATE. RELIGION CANNOT SAVE YOU. JAMES 4:4.
This rendition makes me cry. I Love You Jesus ❤
Im a Muslim but this song is such an inspiration.Lets love one another as brothers and sisters
Yasin Adam bir Hristiyan olarak seninle gurur duyuyorum ♥️
Respect écoutez l amour dans cette belle voix . Grand appel à la Nation Terre ...!!!.
Together, forever
You're not a devoted Muslim. In Islam infidel songs are forbidden (haram)
@@nikosgrigorakos shut your fuckin mouth
Now that the great composer is gone, this song will become an anthem of love for the whole world and perhaps the most covered song ever.
R.I.P. Mr.Cohen.
it is the most covered song
:) I used perhaps only because I didn't want a debate on that matter but I believe you're right.
All those talent shows like the voice and x-factor in all their versions around the world offer at least one adaptation of that song in every seasons.
Pirate Cat a cover of this song in fact rate higher of the original one .. the jeff buckley version is one of the top 10 rated songs ever
Denis Qallija
Yes I know it's my favorite because of the way he played the guitar, he made it sound so ethereal, the intro alone takes you right into the mood.
It's the cover that made the song popular along the movie Shreck and then the lady here inspired a lot of women to try it right along the K.D. Lang version.
I Checked the new covers with a simple search by date, it's totally crazy, there used to be a sea of covers for that song now it's becoming a deep ocean :)
Plus some covers do not even appear in the search page because they are covers of covers that do not mention the author, a bit sad.
So the craziest thing here is that the most covered song will also have the most covered covers....(lol)
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Great version Ive heard ..so amazing..goosebumps ..God bless.
Try Carlise Eden version,is better
i will try Jixu...thanks a lot:-)
SEM dúvidas, a melhor apresentação! 👏🏼👏🏼
Que voz linda!❤️ 🇧🇷
My husband loved this song and the way Alexandra sang it, Rest in Peace Stuart, I listen to it daily as it helps me get through the grief process. Tears still flow and always will. I loved you more then life itself and still do and always will.
Kitten Holst Om sorry for Your loss... May he rest in peace.
Kitten I'm so sorry for your loss Heart wrenching keep it going girl I ll pray for you
Kitten am so sorry for your loss
Kitten Holst.. i'm so sorry... I hope you better now.. you verry love he, but God more than love he...
sorry for you lose
Just fantastic!Fantastic voice& great song from Cohen,may he rest in heavenly sleep💜
Don't know how many times I have revisited this spectacular version. 😢
It's 2023 and no one has sang this song any better than Alex. She has the crown 👑❤️
I mean, Leonard did but I get what you mean.
Agree
I would have to disagree. Try listening to Pentatonix's version 😊
But Alexandra was breathtaking too
I agree........................hands down the best version ever..............
Very true 👍🏾 ❤🎉
Wow! Accidentally found this video, listened and wept. How powerful!!
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Alexander is the person that made me fall in love with the song. I come back to watch this performance very often. Bless up!
Me2. Love her retake on this song!
Correct!.. the expression Hallelujah literally means "praise Jah!"..( Jah is the shortened form of God's name Jehovah/Yehowah = YHWH)..so is its base
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This is by far the best rendition of this song I've ever heard, even the original from the original singer. she delivered the best performance ever! powerful!
Michelle Fraser ever since I heard her voice. its just drawn me in and lift my spirits. this song and her voice. i will never get tired of🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😢😢👌👌👌
JVine Vine Loved K D Lang also
no , its not better than the original...not at all. personaly, dont like this version very much.
+Michelle Fraser Shut the fuck up nigga
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Yass after listening to 10 other versions she's the one who finally delivered. Thank you!
Beautiful and amazing voice!!!Million THUMBS UP!!!
richard sumang Her mom is a good singer too. She was the lead singer in the group Soul to Soul..
It gives me a goosebumps and tears to my eyes, a tears of joy, wanting to praise God with these people. Best version ever.
it's amazing to hear the people of God, singing the praises of God in the presence
Hallelujah!! December, 2019.
Me🤣
Yes girl
...unglaublich toll gesungen.....Perfekt...grüssle Matze aus Hamburg
It's the year 2019 and this performance still gives me goosebumps. What a woman! Jesus 😭🙌🏽❤
Sorry but she is not a christian an the song is not christian ..only for the the fame ...
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@@janetgarcia9051 i don't think you should judge anyone else's faith. Just saying
Beautiful and tasteful rendition!
Going December 2019 and Im still watching this
I am. Wonderful
Me
I am, for like the 1000000 time
I am. This version inspired me to find a total of 14 versions sung and one that was instrumental..
Me lol
This definitely has to be one of the best renditions of Hallelujah.
I love this version, best I’ve ever heard, makes my heart soar 🥰
Zyhrvd je vous
Damn she looks like an Angel
and sings like one too
angels arent black
+Mateusz Minkina but they can be, they are mitical creatures anyway ;)
+Mad Player mytical*
and the voice of one
She's got a very powerful voice. I have got goosebumps while listening her.
Same tbh
Me too
This is so intense- it loads me up with energy- and blows me away- wow…
I am speechless …!well done Alexandra! Love it….
How could 23 souls not approve of this beautiful song. This is an excellent version. Whenever I need a bit of peace from this awful world I listen in. Thanks for sharing this with us ✝️
I don't know how anyone could give it a thumbs down. We know how beautiful she sang the song..she does the best version ever
I’m watching for Christmas 🎄😍..
Wow fantastic 😍😍😍
I'm watching in 2018.
^_^
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ME TOO
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Me too it's so amazing
The best version of the song,congratulations Alexandra
beautiful voice
beautiful woman
beautiful song
Absolutely phenomenal.. Keep coming back to this version. One of the best EVER. She sounds and looks like a heavenly angel. My goodness!!! gives me goosebumps every time!
Speechless! I cannot express what I feel with words.
jestem twardym facetem ale łzy same cisły się do oczu...ONA JEST WIELKA
wbaxm5 nie przejmuj sie nie jestes sam. Ja tez z twardego faceta zrobilem sie takie dziecko jak uslyszalem ta piosenke. Po prostu mistrzostwo SWIATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, powerful, emotional, and perfect. I really loved how she built this up. Exactly what this songs message is to me
Goosebumps all over again, 11 years later after seeing you live Alexandra 😢❤
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started
drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all
the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated
her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing
all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also
ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I
was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different
philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got
on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he
would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when
I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind.
It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had
experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember
saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what
happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my
arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high
school. I was told never to come back. At that time, I felt afraid and
hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would
reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began
getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing
something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started
reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends
because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family
and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were
judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else
different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not
like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who
they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life
and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I
woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like
I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my
life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I
was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence
inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord
please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I
woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I
was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I
looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real it’s impossible. When I
looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying,
and the holy spirit became entirely real to me it was washing over me and
inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an
audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will
never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever
since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I
know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to
be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t
change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of
the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my
addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are
miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive
us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we
believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess
with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and
rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant
life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but
our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our
souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us.
If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES!
Amen!
God bless you, continue in well doing, Jesus is coming back again, sooner than we think..
GhostMonkey772 May God guide you on this journey 💖 Hold onto your vision.
I'm so happy for you
Hallelujah! God bless you for sharing this! Some needs testimonies like this to get through this devastating period
So much passion in her singing. Amazing!
Definitely the best version of this song I've ever heard! Powerful!!!
July 2019.. Still watchin, who's with me ... ! Love her!
✋👋👋
Me 😂
We with you
Amazing 😍💝❤
Meeeeee
Every time I visit this video I'm uplifted, inspired & feel the presence of The Great I Am 🙏
I will be listening in 2020! God bless you.
Check pentatonix version tho
I literally cried at the end and got goosebumps throughout the whole listening. My God, this song combined to her voice is just something out of the world.. I'd say it's ethereal.
Beautiful voice!😍
2017 hallelujah !!! AND BEST SONG EVER. LEONARD COHEN R.I.P :'( :'( :'(
yes 😇😘😉
Nikola Šovljanski yes 👏👏
Yes
baravo
Robin Shultz
I m an Indian n hindu by religion trust me God is beyond religion . Whatever we sing for him as a hymn gives power no matter who u r n from which country n cast u belong
True, m Indian but m Christian..
She agrees .. every voice raised increases Her power.
This song isn't especially about God,it's about how love can break you and bring you to your knees
Amen Sister!!! 🕺
@@sanctusignis9746 Shits deep! 🍔
Oh but why am I crying 😭
Thank you Alexandra for this beautiful version ❤️
You've done this song service
OMG her voice is SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL 😘😍
SUPER GIRLS n
July 2019... and every year... this song is in my heart ❤️
Hallelujah for everyone who listen this beautiful song in 2020
So Hallelujah literally means "praise Jah!" (Jah is the shortened form of God's name Jehovah/Yehowah =YHWH) so yes it has religious aspects..😊
oops wrong thread...
❤️
BRO,I grew up with Leonhard cohen,One of the best singer, songwriter this World ever was facing. I hear his music AND of course halleluja, every day.and i will..until Lord of song calls me Home.god bless all those ,finding Peace in this song.
@@udoheim8045 ❣️👍
I still come back to this, she killed it 👏🏻
an absolutely beautiful woman singing a glorious song 2019
When I’m feeling down I come and listen to her version
Me 2
Like now
Feeling down today and just found, crying, but feeling better.
Marvia Thompson I need you friend
Me too
Jedyna osoba po Panie Kohenie śpiewa z tak wielkim uczuciem.Potencjał głosu czystośc i moc dotarcia do ludzkich serc.Dziękuję❤❤❤
This was so perfect. Amazing!!
Dear Lord have mercy on all of us during this time of a devastating virus in 2020. Please God save those suffering, sick, in pain and grieving. Give never ending grace and strength to all those trying to save others. In Jesus precious name I pray. Amen.
WenChriste Amen and Amen let God bless us all...
Amen
Sure sister, God will accept our prayer and will save all. Take care of urself and ur family.
Dipankar from India.
WenChriste I really need you
Amen
This woman brings power to Hallelujah.
♡♡♡♡
@@sollardsurman7293 xxxxxxdxxxxdxxxxxxxdx
Absolute best performance of this song! No one can sing it better!
I was totally blown away by her voice. Bravo 👏👏
👍🏻👍🏾👏🏽👏🏽
Dec 16 2019 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE🎄
Merry Christmas from Michigan, USA
Thanks
Tahnks
senait hk Merry Christmas from Astana,Kazakhstan
Frohe Weihnachten aus Deutschland- Germany....
By far the best version of Hallelujah
By far the worst.
Screw off dude, you have to admit she can sing
+Ray Amury stfu u cant do it soo
so your saying you can?? then stfu yourself. you probs cant sing, I can sing, but not as good as her
EBlu3 NeCr0 5 years in childrens choir, hunty. And where am I saying that she cant sing? What Im saying is that her theatrical and overly affected way of singing ruins this song. So stfu.
she has a beautiful voice 😍 and she inspired me a lot 😍
I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Well, it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who'd outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not someone who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Thank you for reading. I recorded a cover from this wonderful song. It means a lot to me if you listen to it on my channel! 😊
Thankiu
Thanks for the lyric.....i like it
Thanx dan
Daniel Toth Music thank you be blessed In Jesus name
Thank you a million. I love it so moving.
Who can sing it perfect is a great singer. This song shows who is good or bad singer. She is fantastic.
Octobre 2019👍
Itt vagyunk!
Ouço todos os dias está música. Que voz! Energia! Halleluia.
ici🙋
Yasss
Linda essa canção!
Diese Stimme ist einfach, man kann es nicht in Worten fassen ❤😢...hervorragend
*Hallelujah*
(My original lyrics below in response to the performance. Apologies to Jeff Buckley and Leonard Cohen )
Wow, is amazing. I've never heard of somebody sing a song too well before , but she did.
This song was always meant for a gospel soul treatment, and she did it perfectly.
It was beautiful and _never broken_ .
And that's why she failed. The explicitly song calls for "brokenness" .
Hallelujah is a beautiful and a terrible song. It takes you to the time of greatest love through some of the times of greatest pain.
But her voice takes you from Wonder thru triumph to healing.
But the song says the Opposite: "And love is not a victory march"
She sung a victory march.
So she misses, ( violates , and sanitizes ) the whole purpose, of the song.
"It's not somebody who's seen the light"
Thats all Alexendra Burke sings. She does it well, but thats not what this song is about.
*Hallelujah*
This isn't the song.
The words are here, the notes are too,
But it's missing, the empty forlorn lost cry
That means "I love you"
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
She forgot to add the ache and blues;
get on your knees, beg for news:
*What you've most lost for : Hallelujah!* hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
With no pain , just triumph and gain,
A call to make all , as right as rain;
She sings a solid victory hallelujah. ...
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
The breaking heart wants to breathe again,
It know s her victory song will never reign on its Holy Broken Hallelujah . hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah.
The missing piece, she put it back
she thought she solved the hearts puzzle itself;
and played a wholely unbroken hallelujah, hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah.
But that empty space, we need it so,
Even. Tho it aches below ,
And begs and screams and cries aloud:
"I wish with you that I had died "
: A holy Broken Hallelujah;
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
You´re so damn right...
Of course she´s a good singer, but Buckleys version is out of this world......
Cohen has written the song (god bless him for that), and his version is amazing.
But sorry, I have to repeat it: Buckley has made the greatest song of all time of it.
Chris Sim Its Buckley s song.
He was true to the original but perfected it. You have to hear Buckley's version to hear how badly she screwed it up. You have to hear Buckley deliberately miss notes, to know she was supposed to show some strain. She is supposed to mix in humility vulnerability and frailty. It's in the Lyrics. Instead she was a diva and gave us glamour and narcissism.
Adam Black well,
I don't care about how's song it is, Buckleys version is perfect music and that's all I need ;)
Chris Sim ruclips.net/video/y8AWFf7EAc4/видео.html
***** ...I wish youtube had an idiot filter. Since you are generous to offer self-improvement tips
Maybe , just maybe _you_ should actually read the original versions of the song leonard Cohen wrote, **
and then listen what Leonard Cohen said about what he meant.
**
There are somethings large here that you are missing.
The song was written TO proud people like you, over that exact reason:
"You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah"
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-book-excerpt-leonard-cohen-writes-hallelujah-in-the-holy-or-the-broken-20121203
"I wanted to push the Hallelujah deep into the secular world, into the ordinary world," he once said. "The Hallelujah, the David's Hallelujah, was still a religious song. So I wanted to indicate that Hallelujah can come out of things that have nothing to do with religion."
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"Hallelujah" doesnt mean "I am great".
It doesnt mean "I am proud" It doesnt mean "you are winning". It doesnt mean "I am a prince worship me" .
If thats what you feel when you say it, maybe you are doing it wrong.
***** ( If you are lucky ) You are going to get sick, you are going to get old. You are going to lose all that you posses. probably in painful pieces. +Leonard Cohen song and +jeff Buckleys version speak to that.
i watch this performance every day i feel so good watching this beatiful soul. may the lord bless you girl. Lots of love from kenya
😐😐😐😐😐
This song reminds me of my grandmother....she passed away about 11 months ...and it was so hard for me to say her goodbye 😢💔 i love you grandma... wherever you are.....you raised me up...i own you my life...always in my thoughts and in my heart......25/2/48-4/8/19
Not goodbye for you are her legacy so laugh, love, taste the flavors and savor each breath for in that she lives on in gratitude and memory until you are united. That is the circle of life.
@@SuperCaliforniaBarbi thaank you so much...your words gave me so much strength
Merry Christmas everyone 🎊🎄🎊🎁 thank you Jesus for everything ❤️
it has been almost 10 years since she sang this song.. yet this is the best cover of it
bloody tomato ikr ..so powerful
Canadian Tenors
I think Jeff Buckley did the best version.
bloody tomato I was a bit far but still actual in time...
Better than original
So emotional. Hugs from Israel
Hallelujah - הללויה
This is a word in hebrew.
Thinking of you all in Israel!
What does it mean?
@@KingJoseph
Praise God.
Hallelu - Praise
Jah - another name of god in the bible.
Wow thanks so much!
Palestine will be free! ✊🏾🍉🍉 Halleluyah.
This is probably the most vulnerable version of this song, I’m not gonna lie, I cried. 🥺
Is true
Brian Harris love the rendition ❤️❤️❤️🙏🕊️🕊️😇
I certainly agree with you Brian. 😊😊😊🐱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
This is the best version of this song ✨ gives me goosebumps every time. Alexandra’s voice is anointed by the Lord, makes me want to cry. God has done so much for me 🙏🏾💕
Extremely amazing! Thanks to you Alexandra Burke. God bless you.
tran hau 44xv xa
listening in 2017 still blessed
Miriam Njoroge de Amélie AMEN bisous bisous
Miriam Njoroge It
Mrs. Njoroge You have Great Hearth
Tradution in Portuguese Language :
Senhora Njoroge Você tem um Grande Coração. Boa Sorte (Good Lucky)
Your husband or boyfriend be bless.
Tradution in Portuguese Language
Teu marido ou namorado são abençoados.
Boa Noite (Good Night) Bom Dia aqui
Miriam Njoroge me too!!! 🌹🌹🌹
I don't get tired to see this video. Is beautiful. Aleluya
This is the most beautiful songs. And Alexandra sang it like an angel. Merry Christmas everyone ❤️
I love this song very much
cant hold back my tears everytime i listen to this song 😪 so powerful
Me too. Hallelujah somebody
Awesome
Listening in 2018 still blessed....
Bg Ganteng hykuc
Bg Ganteng if l’aéré a boy
Liebe Alexandra,Ich danke dir für diesen Song ❤❤❤
Hallelujah. December 2019 who watching and listening????
Black is the best
It's almost midnight
Have a Healthy New Year
January 2020