This is an engineer's reaction to the first verse of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.
Last night, while watching the documentary "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song" on Netflix, I kept being struck by the first verse: "Now I've heard there was a secret cord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth / The minor fall, the major lift / The baffled king composing Hallelujah". 1/
@danb Worth noting the self-referential nature of singing 'it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth'" while signing the fourth and fifth.
@geniodiabolico Yes! That's what I meant by "the music itself is merged with the words" but, if you don't remember the song well, that probably wasn't clear enough in part 9 of my thread. Thanks!
