This is for Bona and Larry - or maybe Bona and Bono, the end is a Macphisto part:
Hallelujah
(lyrics from the Leonard Cohen song as covered by Bono on the Cohen tribute album)
I've heard there was a secret chord
that David played to please the Lord,
but you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this: the fourth , the fifth
the minor fall, the major lift;
the baffled king composed Hallelujah!
Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof;
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair
she broke your throne, she cut your hair,
and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah!
You say I took the Name in vain;
I don't even know the name.
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?
There's a blazing light in every word;
it doesn't matter which you heard,
the holy, or the broken Hallelujah!
I did my best; it wasn't much.
I couldn't feel, so I learned to touch.
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though all went wrong,
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!
Now maybe there's a God above
but all I ever learned from love
is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.
And it's no complaint you hear tonight,
and its no pilgrim who's seen the light-
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah!
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this could be for them all!:
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In the Name of the Father
Come to me...
Come lie beside me, oh! Don't deny
me... your love
Make sense of me
Come walk through my doorway
Don't hide in the hallway
Oh! Love step over
...I'll follow you down
...I'll follow you down
In the name of whiskey in the name of song
You didn't look back you didn't belong
In the name of reason in the name of hope
In the name of religion in the name of dope
In the name of freedom you drifted away
To see the sun on someone else's day
In the name of united and the BBC
In the name of Georgie Best and LSD
In the name of a father and his wife the spirit
You said you did not they said you did it
In the name of justice in the name of fun
In the name of the father inthe name of the son
Call to me...
No-one is listening
I'm waiting to hear from you, love
Stay with me
It's cold in the ground
But there's peace in the sound
Of white and the black
Spilling over...
I'll follow you down
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And everyone needs the music 'cause everyone needs relief.
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U2 Take Me Higher *
Ah, well. But I can't wait till after thanksgiving... for Bona and Larry's wedding! 
