Forget all the diva's, the over-blown and the self-serving, and the contemptible Shrek version... and forget the whiney Loudon Wainwright version... they don't get it. This not a song about how great your voice is, and how magnificently authentic your pose is. It's a song about a broken spirit. John Cale got it. So did this guy, an unknown, a small saint:
Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah the
Way it was Meant to be Performed
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