Hallelujah's, like...for saying God is good. You'd say something like 'praise the Maker.'
[ Beth almost doesn't want to explain, since the alternative's sitting there and listening to him play. Already, she's making a mental list of other songs to teach him--if all he needs is to hear them sung to memorize them, they could do this forever. So much Tom Waits. Elvis Costello. Bob Dylan. John Prine. And all the songs her father would've loved on the violin, Irish ballads and drinking songs. ]
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[ Beth almost doesn't want to explain, since the alternative's sitting there and listening to him play. Already, she's making a mental list of other songs to teach him--if all he needs is to hear them sung to memorize them, they could do this forever. So much Tom Waits. Elvis Costello. Bob Dylan. John Prine. And all the songs her father would've loved on the violin, Irish ballads and drinking songs. ]
It's...kind of ironic, in this one.
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You broke my heart, oh how could you
Do that dreadful thing you do
The Maker's quite a bastard
Hallelujah.
Something like that?
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Yeah. But if you wanted to write your own version, it'd have to have more stuff from the Chant.