Hallelujah Lyrics

There's a drunk singing along with the choir outside

Once he played every concert hall when his mother was alive

He said this ship's going down

Shoot the captain

But he's seen the broken vows that they make

And they promise to share all the plundered diamonds they take

And they're sucking some other part of the world dry now

And they're burning nightingales

But they're the kinda people that never leave a beautiful piano alone

Not until it's broken

And it's song can't be sung

Dreamed of a time when he was with the orchestra of the world

But he don't expect anybody to listen

And the bums pass around that bottle a hope

And by their bruises and scars you can read what a hard life wrote

And they're singing hallelujah by the burning trunk tyre light

They're singing hallelujah but there ain't no hallelujah tonight

He said the choir you all croon in will die

You allow our children to sleep on the streets and you don't even ask why

Youth in rebellion ha

But you don't care about anything

Do ya

You throw war and religion at it like you mean love

Think you raped the future more than enough

You killing it

And we all know there's enough to go around

But he wants us all to sing along with his song

Said I don't know where I'm heading but it won't be so long

And may the light of our kitchen once more

Pour out across the world

And the bums pass around that bottle of hope

By their bruises and scars you can read what a hard life wrote

And they're singing hallelujah by the burning trunk tyre light

But they're singing hallelujah but there ain't no hallelujah tonight