Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah Leonard Cohen was a poet of the scourge that It was important for his music. The latter marked the song "Hallelujah": his most famous vision of the transcendence. He took 5 years to write this wonderful song, but at the beginning it didn't achieve renown. However, over the years this song was also sang by other artist, for instance Jeff Buckley. "Hallelujah" is a song of jubilation that considers with sincerity God's deceptions. L.Cohen said that he wanted to stay with people who see the Kingdom of the Lord for what It is, that is to say sacred and destroyed, but they have braveness to praise it. The lyrics includes a lot of biblical references. The first verse opens quoting David, Israel King, who could calm Saul's evil spirit playing the harp. The following verses refer another episode where David had seen Betsabea, Uriah D'Ittita's wife, while she had bathed on the terrace of her palace. After they had a relationship, that led to the woman's pregnancy and ended with the death of Uriah, who was killed by David. The following verse says about Samson's love for Dalila, who convinced him to reveal the secret of his power, that resided in his hairs. The woman revealed it to the Philippians, who cut off Samson's hairs, leading him to his dying