I'm leaving this comment here so that whenever someone likes it, I come to listen this song and feel him over and again!

My son was 38 when he introduced me to Jeff Buckley's beautiful rendition of Hallelujah. He told me of how Buckley passed and how it made him feel. Three months later he died in a terrible accident in much the same way. I come here occasionally to remember him.

“I don’t really need to be remembered. I hope the music’s remembered.” - Jeff Buckley

How many people are watching in 2024?

Cohen and Buckley are together now singing this incredible song side by side

I am battling cancer and if i go i want this played. I want the people who care to hear this and feel at peace knowing i am not in pain anymore.

My wife was pregnant with our twin girls and during all the pregnancy there were many doubts about the health of the babies. At 36 weeks, after 2 days in the hospital, at midnight, my wife gave birth to 2 perfect babies. The day after I was with them in the hospital all day, barely went to the bathroom, didn't even eat. At night when I got in the car to go home this was the music playing, had to stop the car at the side of the road and cry my heart out...

I needed to hear this today. My beautiful daughter passed away 10 years ago.she will be 38 this yr. Always in my heart. XOXO

My brother took his own life... its the hardest thing ive ever gone through in my life....he used to play this in his truck when he drove me to school..now i drive his truck and play this for him. I love you bro...

David: *plays secret chord* The lord: Nice

A masterpiece. RIP Leonard Cohen & Jeff Buckley.

Whoever reads this... I hope you find happiness, and love and learn to forgive and forget. Our lives are so short... please try to be happy as much as you can: in a butterfly, in the way the sun warms up your face, the way a small child smiles back at you at the supermarket queue, a hug from a friend. Please do not take them from granted. Ever. I miss you, Jeff, you'll never be forgotten. By millions. Sincerely, a struggling Argentinian English professor. (16/3/24)

36k dislikes? You don't really care for music do yah?

Beautiful. RIP Jeff Buckley RIP Leonard Cohen

Im so lonely! I pray God to give me the chance to feel the love again and again and again, forever.

Whomever needs to hear this: You are beloved. What a weird yet fantastic life we live! Somebody, somewhere is better off having known you. Life is a tenuous string that we have little to no control of. If you have listened to this heavenly rendition then your life has been worth something. Jeff was utterly unique and brilliant. Listen to music and turn it up LOUD. Kiss your partner, tell your siblings and parents that you love them. We are only here for an annoyingly short space of time - it's important that you tell them all how you feel. I wish you all good fortune and that you continue to listen to top-drawer music like this for the rest of your lives. Educate your children with these immaculately beautiful songs. Peace and love ❤

Me and my friends used to joke about what funeral song we wanted and we all picked this. But when my pal Rossi passed away unexpectedly, we brought a sound system into the church and for 6 and a half minutes this song brought such emotion to us all. RIP Rossi ❤

You don’t ever search this song looking for joy, it’s usually looking for peace. I hope you all find peace my friends

This song was played when one of my fallen comrades was buried. It was the day I lost faith. But I still love the song.

1 guitar, 1 voice, 1 masterpiece!

In an interview with Jeff in 1994, which sheds light on what truly influenced him musically, he says: "Words are really beautiful, but they’re limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there’s nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is. I need to inhabit every bit of lyric, or else I can’t bring the song to you-or else it’s just words.’”

Needless to say , but I must say it loud : Most beautiful song ever sung.

What a tragedy to lose this amazing talent so young.

God spoke to Leonard, and Jeff added his God given interpretation...... Thank you Lord. Amen!

I had just been transferred from the icu to cancer floor, the sun was streaming though the curtains and I put on the ipod my brother loaned me. This song came on and I felt like I had been given a second chance. I cried tears of joy. I was 25 then. I'm 40 (and cancer free) now and still cry every time I hear this song.

If this song isn't playing at my funeral... I'm not going.

Vulnerability is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. When we're brave with our hearts - when we have the courage to love and hope, to try, fail, and try again - the result of our daring isn't a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of liberation mixed with a little battle fatigue

I like how buckley seems to understand that this is not a happy song really but a very sad one

Man.......... you can physically hear the emotions in his voice

Rest in Peace Chris Cornell and Jeff Buckley, two brothers, now together in the heavens :'(

On this day in 1997 we lost Jeff Buckley. Rest in peace sweet soul! My favorite version of this song!

My twin brother committed suicide 9 years ago. This song was the last thing he posted on his Facebook feed. I'm pretty sure he's rest in peace now.

RIP Leonard Cohen. Without you, this song would not exist. Thank you.

I don't have a sad story to tell. I'm just here to enjoy the song.

This is a love song What kind of love? All the kinds.

This was my mum‘s funeral song and I haven’t listen to it in 11 years because it’s hurt so much, but today I found the courage to. I broke down crying but I’m glad I did.

Fighting cancer so I can stick around for my 5 kiddos. After every treatment when I feel like I have no more fight left in my tired pain racked body, when all I can do is lay and my soul aches for release…I play this song again and again until it leads me back to my inner strength. And I keep fighting. Love is not a victory march, sometimes it is fucking HARD, sometimes it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.

One of the most beautiful, heartfelt renditions of this song. I think it's the best rendition ever sung.

Reminds me of the moment the Holy Ghost sees the Holy Spirit once more. RIP Jeff

8 yrs ago i had to bury my 7yr old son. I would hold and rock him to this song as it played low and he would reach up, touch my cheek and fall asleep. it was our thing up till he was 3. this played at the church during his funeral. i broke down as I am now. Fly high Micah and sing along with Jeff in Heaven.

R.I.P JEFF BUCKLEY

one of the gretest songs of all time, which is a strong but seemingly true statement.

Today is twenty-seven years of Jeff leaving this planet and becoming a northern star ❤️‍🩹🌟✨️🪶 This song broke my heart once more. Love you Jeff, in love with u forever 💘

For those of you wondering who said "wow" after he finished the song, that's Andy Wallace, Jeff's producer. Andy is a Grammy winning producer who has seen and produced anything you can think of, and Jeff's performance still amazes him... That's how you know you're good.

My partner of 13 years loved this song, listening to this allows me to cry my heart out as he passed away yesterday. I feel as if someone cut a piece of my heart out and wonder if I will ever feel normal again. Paul was an amazing person who was kind, loving and compassionate. He was a wonderful singer too. I'll miss his voice, sense of humor, hugs and our road trips.

I was working with my father at a construction site when I heard this song. We sat silently and listened this on a beautiful summer day in 2014. Now I always cry when I hear it because my father has been dead for 7 years ago...

This song is just beautiful by a beautiful soul Rest in peace Jeff Buckley

Hallellujah is a song I have and will listen till the end of my days. Rest in peace Leonard Cohen.

The beginning sounds like he was trying to find the secret chord that David played, that pleased the Lord.

Troubled man. Perfect song. Get some.

This was the song my mom played for me when I came to after a suicide attempt, and she told me "please don't make me play this again". Love her, and to everyone out there, it may be cliche but it truly does get better

My dad loved when I sang this song, one day he recorded me singing it and then he played it on the car radio on our way home. My dad passed away last year, he was a doctor and he died from covid19. I miss him so much.

Anyone from 2024? 😅

Whenever I'm in the mood to cry or smile, I come back to this song.

Perfection ... R.I.P Jeff

Buckley's version kills me every time...

I'm posting the lyrics, so when someone hears this for the first time, they'll know the words ♡ I heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Well 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 her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Baby, I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor You know, I used to live alone before I knew you And I've seen your flag on the marble arch And Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Well, there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me, do you? But remember, when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath, we drew was Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Maybe there's a God above But, all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you? And it's not a cry, that you 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 Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

For all my youngsters reading please listen. I've searched for years to be able to explain the feelings of watching yourself and someone else fall in love. From the mesmerizing beginning to the learning of each other's ways to the small debates becoming larger arguments to slowly watching the person that means more to you than the world itself fall out of love with you. A pain you can't sleep off, a hurt that never goes away, a pit that no matter what you put in it it never fills. This song......my God this song. This song along with Jeff's breath taking performance is the closest you can get to experience without experience. I come here to cry. Don't be me. Live, love, hold on, and cherish. This world today makes fuckin up seem cool. It's not. It'll just make you another fool coming to this song to cry

This song was played on the streets of Dubrovnik after my grandmother died in her homeland. It was like sent by her.😔

oh, sweet Mississippi.....give him back!

It was a loss with the promise of so much more; this Guy had such a tragic death at such an early stage of his journey ~ God Bless J.B.

Sometimes we all struggle , but faith will always pull us through the furnace unburnt. I listen to this song whenever I need to put air beneath my wings . If you do the same , just know you got this , stay strong and positive. God is good always ❤

I lost my wife to kidney disease back in August of this year. This song was what allowed her to find peace in the fact that her illness was terminal and helped through hospice and gave her comfort in knowing that was no reason to fear death. I listen to it when I want to feel close to her. She was and still is my soul and my center. I love you forever and always Selene.

Listening to this at 3 am in the morning, crying and thinking about my life. How I wanna live it to the fullest and don’t wanna regret anything but at the same time, it’s so hard to just even exist. As an overthinker, life can be too much sometimes.

The sign.of a great song is that it means many things to many different people. Needless to say, this is one of those songs. No matter who sings it.

I was just watching a podcast about the history of this song, and was struck by a comment that someone made. “ The song didn’t need Jeff so much as Jeff needed the song “. After coming back to re-listen, I think that person might have been on to something. It’s like he had this inside and really wanted to get it out. The result was amazingly haunting and beautiful.

He put a part of his soul into this song and it will live always.

Everyone's telling their sad stories, but all I have on my damn mind is Shrek

He only takes the good ones they seem to die young , god bless them.

It breaks my heart that he passed away at such a young age because I know for a fact he was going to do so many more great things!!

Jeff Buckley (17 November 1966- 29 Mai 1997)... we miss you...

My wife died last year. She was 35, died at sea. The choir sang Buckleys version of Cohens immortal song as we carried her coffin out of the church. My heart still weeps every night and listening to this is both nectar and poison. Beautiful poison.

one of the most and best mature voices ever!🙏

Aways loved the "wow" at the end.

Listening while tears are flowing for my son. A parent shouldn't outlive your child. Justin Rest in Peace. I love you, Dad.

Lyrics Well I heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah [x4] 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 her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah [x4] Baby I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor (you know) I used to live alone before I knew you And I've seen your flag on the marble arch And love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah [x4] There was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me, do you? But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah Hallelujah [x4] Maybe there's a God above All I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah [x13]

Listening to Jeff Buckley for the first time. This recording is as if he were right here in the room. Quite moving.

Still listening to this beautiful man sing this dec 28th 2023 ❤

I've been kicked hard by life. Lost my dad when I was nine. Got institutionalized in my teens by my mom because she didn't want to raise me anymore. Fought my way out of that hell into my first apartment when I was 18, against medical advice, and thrived. Got my social worker dismissed before my 20th birthday. Lost my first love when schizophrenia turned her into a shell of herself, as gone to me as if she'd died in my arms. I did OK in my 20s. Knocked around a lot. Worked as a casino wiseguy, a freelance writer, cheap, dead-end jobs, got married at 27... ...but the demons were just setting me up for some even harder knocks. Got divorced at 32. Turns out I make a terrible husband because I'm too broken to be able to handle someone else. She left because I was 'emotionally unavailable' and I had absolutely nothing to counter the argument. Then the Great Recession happened and I ended up homeless. Didn't matter. Fought my way off the street. I'd been through worse, honestly. Homelessness was playing with house money, but "house money" was what I was earning. You haven't learned what true appreciation is until you've been without your own toilet to take a dump in and you finally get that most basic of human privileges back. Keeping the place, now that was a whole new set of challenges. Worked a job with a two-hour commute and garbage pay that made me seriously think that I was going to break. I was at a point where I'd rather be on the street than working that job...hell, death didn't even sound like a bad alternative. And just when I came out of that-quit the job, went full-time freelance again-I had a heart attack. Before I went in for surgery, I finished an article I'd been working on because no way was I going to my grave having missed a deadline, said "if I don't come out of this, just remember to play The Ecstasy of Gold as you light the barge to send me to meet the gods"...and survived. I was 38. And somehow that last reprieve finally turned the corner. I'll be 45 next month. I'm working a fantastic job with great co-workers and a boss who used the word "ecstatic" at my last review. And there are two songs that truly capture the feeling of how grateful I am to have been blessed with whatever weird survivor gene is in my DNA. One is "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg, a song that belongs to my father. The other is this song. You can only get so far on "my life's pretty bad but at least I'm not this guy"...but if I can claw my way through hell and back, I hope like hell it inspires someone else. Hallelujah.

I'm so heartbroken. 2016 has been too much...

It was haunting hearing this on the radio when he passed. Heaven needed another angel for the choir 😇 👼

Popped on my Facebook feed it was the anniversary of his passing so i came to listen so he knows we still remember and enjoy his creation ❣️

The fact that Jeff Buckley recorded this for all of us before he checked out.... Hallelujah...

What a masterpiece . This song was recorded in one take . Just one is all it took

Sitting in 2024 listening with my wife, a few beers and an open fire outside remembering my big brother (rip 2016)... God it's a great song and I love it but makes me emotional for him 😢 but I keep coming back....

rest in peace, 27 years later

I lost my grandma to the virus this week and this song is helping so much right now. RIP to all the lives we’ve lost to this monster. May love and resilience be stronger than this pandemic ❤️

And love is not a victory march, it's a cold and its a broken hallelujah, best line :')

Buckley touched Heaven (whatever it is) with this version of this song. Nobody has done it better; even tho many have done it well, including Cohen himself

Just a personal story of this song to share: several years ago I had the privilege of climbing Kilimanjaro. The summit day started with an 8-hour trudge up shale on the crater rim in the pitch dark and cold, with no sense of progression and every sinew craving to give up. Suddenly, from nowhere, the porters (local lads carrying loads) in our group and others starting singing this song. We all joined in. To my death, I will always remember the progression of torch lights in the dark, each representing a personal battle, to the harmony of this song sung with passion by normal folk in an abnormal situation.

This was my brother's favorite song. We played it at his memorial service. I listen to it when I miss him.

Divine. I so wish you were still with us Jeff. Nearly 20 years on....and you are still missed. X

“Wow” the last thing you hear on this clip is all you can sum it up as. No words to describe this kind of talent.

I think that if a young Elvis were to sing this song it would have been in a similar style . This is the kind of emotion and energy that he would have brought to this beautiful song.

This isn’t a vocal ballad that people have turned it into. It’s a beautifully poetic, brutally raw depiction of what love is. Love ain’t flowers and things. It’s hard work and has no place for selfishness.

Been coming here for ten years to purge my tears and my soul.....God Bless all who do.....

Great Leonard Cohen song but this is just heartbreakingly wonderful, I listen to it often.

I'm from China and it was by chance that I came across Jeff Buckley's music. I was captivated by his voice and began to seek out his interviews and biographies, only to discover more and more that he was a pure, kind, and beautiful person. R.I.P.🩶🩶🩶

It's truly the most beautiful rendition of the song. Especially because of the ligh tning. The idea with the lightning shows the true nature of the song; the dark and the light. Love is not all light it encompasses all...the dark and the light. I think this song is misinterpreted often. It's about seeing the good and bad and marching on.

And so they are gone. The man who wrote it and the man who sings it so good. Thank you.......