00:00Si è un mondo che non si può essere sensato,
00:03tu puoi riuscire i piedi,
00:05o tu puoi dire, «Halleluia».
00:07«Halleluia».
00:11«Halleluia».
00:15I was a young reporter for Rolling Stone magazine in 1974
00:18doing a piece on Leonard.
00:20He's so gracious.
00:21«It goes like this before».
00:25Leonard, he was always a spiritual seeker.
00:27Unlocking the mysteries of life was his primary preoccupation.
00:33Sitting in a meditation hall for four or five hours a day,
00:36you kind of get straight with yourself.
00:40You know, it was often starting with this song.
00:43First thing, coffee, then working on «Halleluia».
00:47«Halleluia».
00:49There was a lot of verses.
00:51The number 180 comes to mind.
00:53The real song, where that comes from,
00:56no one knows, that is grace, that is a gift.
01:00Columbia Records refused to put it out.
01:04The rejection of an album after it's paid for,
01:10that's pretty extreme, yeah.
01:12He was crushed after that.
01:13The first version of «Halleluia» I heard was Jeff Buckley.
01:21Jeff Buckley.
01:22I remember John Cale covering that song.
01:25I remember going, wow, not a lot of people know that tune.
01:28Just Cale, then Buckley, and then Shrek.
01:32So Shrek really broke it.
01:39«Halleluia» really beat the odds in that it's its own thing now.
01:43And it has its own life.
01:46I mean, I think he was tickled pink.
01:48Everybody and their sister are singing the song.
01:50You're getting things that are so deep and so resonant
01:57in your own spiritual journey
01:59that you are benefiting from his.
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