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我尝试回答一下这个问题。首先，这首歌只是借用《圣经》里的故事，有浓郁的bibilical atmosphere的通俗歌曲，但绝对不是hymn。 Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah David，这个以前提过，是犹太人历史上也是人类历史上一位非常著名的君王，并深受神的喜爱。他形象俊美，很多文艺复兴时期的雕塑都是以他为原型，如著名的《大卫像》。大卫王不仅能征善战，而且精通韵律，并弹得一手好琴，同时也是一个伟大的诗人。 所以这里的“secret chord”就比较好理解了，一是大卫王所弹的琴声，二是他内心对Lord的感情。 Hallelujah, 哈利路亚，从古希伯来文翻译过来就是“感谢赞美主”的意思。 |
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(油画作品欣赏："Bathsheba at Her Bath") Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah 你的信心强壮为何还要寻求凭据？ 这段歌词是借用了《圣经》里非常著名的大卫王和乌利亚的妻子拔士巴的故事。《圣经》原文摘抄如下： One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David send someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittie?" Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her...... (Samuel 11: 2 - 4 撒母耳记 11： 2－4) |
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有了上面对这段历史故事的解释，下面的歌词就好理解了 Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
This is love not some kind of a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah （Holy Dove是指圣灵，但这里只是借用，没有其它意思）
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight,
It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light
No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah… |
实际上这个帖子是我后来懒得打字了，所以解释一半就干脆贴歌词了。等哪天有时间还是把这段好好解释一下吧，不然会给对这段历史不熟悉的朋友带来很大的困惑。是我的不对，呵呵～