contact part deux

[bouchonne]

if this were modern times byerly would probably make you listen to total eclipse of the heart before you were able to leave a message

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[littlemissfutility]

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. ]

It's...kind of ironic, in this one.

[bouchonne]

[ A laugh, and then he sings along to the tune, his voice a pleasant (if not very remarkable) baritone - ]

You broke my heart, oh how could you
Do that dreadful thing you do
The Maker's quite a bastard
Hallelujah.

Something like that?

[littlemissfutility]

[ Which makes her laugh a little. ]

Yeah. But if you wanted to write your own version, it'd have to have more stuff from the Chant.