{"id":2459,"date":"2015-11-30T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/kateohare\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2015-11-30T23:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T07:37:16","slug":"jordan-smith-of-the-voice-says-hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kateohare\/2015\/11\/jordan-smith-of-the-voice-says-hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Smith of ‘The Voice’ Says ‘Hallelujah’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cHallelujah\u201d has a beautiful, plaintive melody paired with vaguely Old Testament-ty lyrics that, if not exactly anti-religious, are religiously ambivalent.<\/p>\n

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Now I\u2019ve heard there was a secret chord
\nThat David played, and it pleased the Lord
\nBut you don\u2019t really care for music, do you?
\nIt goes like this
\nThe fourth, the fifth
\nThe minor fall, the major lift
\nThe baffled king composing Hallelujah<\/p>\n

Hallelujah
\nHallelujah
\nHallelujah
\nHallelujah<\/p>\n

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
\nYou saw her bathing on the roof
\nHer beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
\nShe tied you to a kitchen chair
\nShe broke your throne, and she cut your hair
\nAnd from your lips she drew the Hallelujah<\/p>\n

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nYou say I took the name in vain
\nI don\u2019t even know the name
\nBut if I did, well really, what\u2019s it to you?
\nThere\u2019s a blaze of light
\nIn every word
\nIt doesn\u2019t matter which you heard
\nThe holy or the broken Hallelujah<\/p>\n

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah<\/p>\n

I did my best, it wasn\u2019t much
\nI couldn\u2019t feel, so I tried to touch
\nI\u2019ve told the truth, I didn\u2019t come to fool you
\nAnd even though it all went wrong
\nI\u2019ll stand before the Lord of Song
\nWith nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah<\/p>\n

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah, Hallelujah
\nHallelujah<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But Jordan Smith<\/a>, a contestant on NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Voice\u201d<\/a> \u2014 who previously wowed the audience <\/a>with a straight-up hymn \u2014 nailed the performance on Monday, Nov. 30.<\/p>\n