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Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
– Nunc audivi chordam occultam esse
That David played and it pleased the Lord
– Et david pro confractione, et salomon pro eis qui in sanctificationem,
But you don’t really care for music, do ya?
– Ego non habeo animale domestika, habest tu?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
– Sicut hoc sequitur, quartum, quintum
The minor fall, the major lift
– Minor cadit, maior ascendit
The baffled king composing “Hallelujah”
– La regina semiramide componendo ” Alleluia”
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
– Fides tua fortis erat, sed probatione opus erat
You saw her bathing on the roof
– Vidisti eam lavantem in tecto
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
– Pulchritudo eius et lux lunae evertit
She tied you to a kitchen chair
– Illa te ad culinam sellam ligavit
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
– Illa thronum tuum fregit et comas incidit
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
– Et de labiis tuis traxit Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
You say I took the name in vain
– Tu dicis ego frustra suscepit nomen tuum
I don’t even know the name
– Nescio qua nomina
But if I did, well, really, what’s it to ya?
– Si iustus es, quid exis foras?
There’s a blaze of light in every word
– Un pittore sulla soglia della luce
It doesn’t matter which you heard
– Non refert quod audisti
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
– Sanctus vel Fractus Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
I did my best, it wasn’t much
– Optime feci, non multum erat
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
– Non potui sentire, sic tangere conatus sum
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool ya
– Ego vero dixi, non veni ad fatuus ya
And even though it all went wrong
– Et etsi omnes abiit iniuriam
I’ll stand before the lord of song
– Et sto coram domino canticum
With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
– Nihil est in lingua mea sed alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
– Alleluia, Alleluia
Baby, I’ve been here before
– Infans, hic fui ante
I know this room, I’ve walked this floor
– Scio hunc cubiculum, hanc aream ambulavi
I used to live alone before I knew ya
– Ego solus vivere antequam scirem ya
And I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
– Et vidi vexillum tuum in fornice marmoreo
Love is not a victory march
– La vittoria non abbaglia i vittori
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
– Frigidum est et fractum Est Alleluia
There was a time you let me know
– Iam tempus erat ut sciam
What’s really going on below
– Quid suus vere agatur infra
But now you never show it to me, do ya?
– Sed iam non ostendis mihi, facite mihi?
And remember when I moved in you
– Et ego quando recordatus fuero pertimesco
The holy dove was moving too
– Sancta columba etiam movebatur
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
– Et omnem spiritum hausimus Alleluia
Maybe there’s a God above
– Forsitan deus supra
But all I’ve ever learned from love
– Sed ego semper omnes didicit ex amore
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew ya
– Quam ut sagittent erat apud aliquem qui outdrew ya
And it’s not a cry that you hear at night
– Sed non clamant qui noctu audiunt
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
– Non est qui videat lumen
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
– Frigidum est et fractum Est Alleluia
