Blog: i guess i'm floating

In 1984 Leonard Cohen was sitting in a hotel room in New York, banging his head on the floor in desperate frustration, struggling through verse after verse (a rumored 80 or so) for his now-infamous song "Hallelujah." Those verses were filled with numerous Biblical references, including one of a "secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord." This, as it turned out, alluded to 1 Samuel 16:23, but not entirely. Under any translation there was no secret chord, just David's soothing harp playing for King Saul's demon-less sanity. A looser interpretation of Cohen's [...]

• The Sand Band - The Secret Chord