Hallelujah

Live at Teatro Regio di Parma

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli OMRI OMDSM (Italian: [anˈdreːa boˈtʃɛlli]; born 22 September 1958)^[1] is an Italian opera tenor and multi-instrumentalist.^[2][3] He was diagnosed with congenital glaucoma at 5 months old, and became completely blind at age 12, following a football accident. After performing evenings in piano bars and competing in local singing contests, Bocelli signed his first recording contract with the Sugar Music label. He rose to fame in 1994, winning the preliminary round of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Miserere", with the highest marks ever recorded in the newcomers section.

Lyrics

Now I've heard there was a secret chord

That David played and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

Well, it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

La fede mia mi abbandonò

My faith abandoned me

Si perse ma si ritrovò

It got lost, but found itself again

Perché smarrito sempre la cercai

Because even if lost, I always sought it

Bellezza, incanto e nostalgia

Beauty, enchantment and nostalgia

Ferirono la mente mia

Wounded my mind

Che in lacrime gridava un Hallelujah

That in tears was screaming Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Il santo nome tuo dirò

The holy name of You I'll call

Un nome che ormai non ho

A name of which I'm now not

Paura che risuoni dentro me

afraid when it echoes inside me

Di luce esplode la poesia

Of light blows up poetry

Come una sacra sinfonia

Like a sacred symphony

Che intona per il mondo un Hallelujah

That chants for the world Hallelujah

Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya

And even though all went wrong

I'll stand before the Lord of Song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah