Secular Hymn!? - 'Hallelujah'

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Secular Hymn!? - 'Hallelujah'


Artist: Leonard Cohen

Album: Various Positions

Released: 1984


He hla hi a controversial ang reng. Han thlir thuak chuan 'Pathian Hla' ṭha tak a ang. Chumi avanga, he hla hi Mizo sa ve pawh an awmin an sawi. Nimahse, Symbolically a tisa thil zu phuahna a nih hmel zawk mah. Engpawh nise, Bible thu a tel nual avang hian Pathian hla a ni tihna a ni chiah chuang lo.


Mihring Hmangaihna vanduai, kehchhia in a mihring nun a nghawng tarlanna a ni ber (devastating love). Chu - Tisa chakna chu - Bible a hero & heroine (character) hmangin,  metaphorically leh symbolization in a rawn din chhuak a tih theih. Tin, 'Hallelujah' - Tisa nawmna leh tawrhna (passion) vawrtawp anga hmangin ka hmu.


He hla chhungril hi. Heng - Rilru natna kan tih ang chi zawng zawngte. Tin, a laimuah - Opposite sex hmangaihna in a ken tel - 'Tisa chakna vawrtawp hlenna', lawmna, hlimawm ang chi te. Tin, chu hmangaihna kehchhia avanga nunin a tawrhna. Chumi atanga inrem-lehna, inpawm-lehna te a ni thei vek bawk (refrain worthy of times of celebration, of mourning, of regret, of catharsis and reconciliation)


Hei le - 'Gospel nge Pel lo' !?


'Now I've heard there was a secret chord,

That David played, and it pleased the Lord.

The minor falls, the major lifts

The baffled king composing Hallelujah...'


A chang khatna-ah hian Bible-a, Lal Davida tingtang perh avanga Saula mantu (tibuaitu), Ramhuai leh a chhehvel a rawn tarlang. Pathian a tih lawmna/ Fak hla (Sam) - Chu chu a chord ngaiin, symbolically in - Nula/ hmeichhia a vehthlemna hawiin a her lut a ang hle.


(..It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth/The minor fall, the major lift). Lehlamah chuan - 'Minor fall' hi Eden bawhchhiatna. 'Major lift' - 'Lal Isua' inpumpekna ang pawhin a ngaih theih tho. Mahse, a chang dang nen khaikhinin a pawm chi niin a lang lo thung.


 'Baffled...' ( ngaihna hrelo/ mak) He thumal hian he hla hi a ti buai hle. 'Battle' indona - Davida leh Goliath inbeihna anga ngaih (luih) a awl. Tisa chakna chungchanga - a khingpui ( opposite sex) hneh loa a hriatna ang zawngin a ngaih theih. 


Tin, Cohnen hian ti zawng hian - Chu - (dont really care for music..) rimawiah (Inlemna pawnlawi) ringawtah chuan a hmeichhe suangtuahna chu a innghat lo. A vawrtawp (climax) a ngai. Pathian pawh a lang lem lo a ni. A inrawlhna chi a ni chiah lo maithei. Mihring nunphunga, hmeichhia leh mipa kar in-itna sang tak hi a hmu a ang hle.


'Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof....She tied you to a kitchen chair

She broke your throne, and.... lips she drew the Hallelujah'


He laiah pawh hian, Bible thu a awm nual (II Samuela 11). Uria nupui Bethsebi, Lal Davida'n a uire chungchang leh, a pasal Uria a thihhlum dante a lang. Mahse, Leonard Cohen hian - Hmangaihna leh tisa chakna inkungkaih dan/ inkawp dan a sawi daih a ang hle mai.


Duhthawh uchuak taka mipat hmeichhiatna (Tying someone to a chair) a kawk thei. Chumi'in a, mihring zahawmna a tihnep/ hniam theih zia a tarlang a ni. Hei chu a chiang.(kitchen chair). Davida nun kal zelah, a fapa upa ber 'Adonijah' ( Chi inthlun dan bi...genetic arrangement) ni loin, Solomona, a uirena - Bethsebi laka a fa-in a ai a awh daih! (Broke your throne).


'And from your lips she drew' -  Samsona chungchangte rawn zep telin. Mihring tlukna leh panna ber hi inlemna, tisa thil - mipat hmeichhiatna a ni a ti a ni (Sweet ecstasy of passion).


Inkungkaihna, innelna ( ...thuk takin a hrin Hmangaihna) a buk a. A tawn tawh a sawi a ni. A nghawng nat zia a hmu. Hlimna aia natna a hmu lian a ni.


Cohen hian hmangaihna vanduai kan tih ang chi hi a la thuk hle. A ken tel a hmu lian hle bawk. Hengte hian - Lungawina famkim a thlen loh zia a uar tan tan hle. (It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the Light). Tlawmna tawpah, hnehna a awm thuin a khar hial.


(And I've seen your flag on the marble arch) Titus'an Juda ho a hnehna entirna, Rome a Titusa 'Marble Lim' a ni (symbol of victory). Hetah hian sual hnehna thu (chhuang taka tarlanna) emaw, mihring chak lohna - Hmangaihna avanga nun hahna lak ata invawn hranna(..chumi lantirna) ang pawhin a ngaih theih. Induhna, hmangaihna hi nun tifamkimtu a nih ber lo(...no march to victory).  Chutihlaiin, Tisa chakna puitlin theih lohna (not to fulfill the desire of passion) - chumi atanga hlawhtlinna pawh a kawk daih thei.


Inngaihzawnna a lo pelh hian, innelna thuk loh vang a ni thei. Tin, tisa chakna inphuhruk zawh tawn lohna a ni thei tho (goin on below). Hemi lama inthup tlatna hian inlaichinna a khawih nasa. (When i move in) symbolically a sexual intercourse a ang.


'Single breath we drew was Hallelujah' (climax of passion, Sexual intercourse) liau liau. He lai phei hi chu, Mizo Kristian, Bible vûr um a hmang ho tan hi chuan, sawifiah kilh kelh loh a fu zawk.


Tin, ‘Holy dove’ hi Christian Trinity a 'Thlarau Thianghlim' entirna a ni a( Symbol). He hlaah hi chuan a uchuaka sex lam hawi sawi nan a hmang lo tih sawi ngam a har hle.


Tlipna :


A hla hi literally a en chuan - Lal Davida sual khawih hma leh hnu chungchang, ama dik lohna zep lova Pathian a dawrna. Pathian a fakna a ni mai.


Nimahse, Cohen-a hian - Hmangaihna kehchhia, hmangaihna rinawmzia, dik lohna, sual man rulh tlakna, inchhir avanga thiltha tih, remna zawnna te a huam tir vek tho. (story of broken love ture love remember and mourned, guilty, penance, and of finding peace).



Tin, hmangaihna kawnga hlimna leh, a suangtuahna tihlawhtling tura a beih nasat zia te. Chu mi-ah chuan a beisei a hmuh chuan loh thu a sawi a ni ber.



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