Hallelujah
I've heard there was a secret chord
Harry Potter sat by a table, contemplatingThat David played and it pleased the lord
He was The-Boy-Who-LivedBut you don't really care for music do you?
Voldemort wasn't bothered by the titleIt goes like this, the fourth the fifth
During his years at Hogwarts he had beaten the monsterThe minor fall, the major lift
But Cedric had died and the dark lord had risenThe baffled king composing hallelujah
He fought against Voldemort's twisted visionHallelujah
He looked backHallelujah
He had lost so muchHallelujah
And lived so littleHallelujah
Harry reached for the bottle of fire whiskeyYour faith was strong but you needed proof
He was for the light, but was it worth it?You saw her bathing on the roof
He thought of his first sight of HogwartsHer beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
It practically glowed in the night, he had come home.She tied you to a kitchen chair
Yet every summer he returned to the Dursleys.
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
They hated him and made scathing commentsAnd from your lips she drew the hallelujah
And then he would return home, to HogwartsHallelujah
And yet, it was hard.
Hallelujah
Each year harderHallelujah
Each more painfulHallelujah
But it was home.
Maybe I've been here before
He had vague memories of his parents.
I know this room, I've walked this floor
A home he wished he could rememberI used to live alone before I knew you
He was alone until he went to HogwartsI've seen your flag on the marble arch
That crest engraved in stone had meaning for him.
Love is not a victory march
But a castle couldn't love himIt's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
It could welcome him but never love himHallelujah
He wondered privately,
Hallelujah
What if?Hallelujah
What if they hadn't died?Hallelujah
What if he could have had them too?There was a time you let me know
His mentor was gone now tooWhat's real and going on below
Dumbledore had taught him many thingsBut now you never show it to me do you
But he was gone now too.
And remember when I moved in you
He had wondered through the halls then,
The holy dark was moving too
But the school was empty without himAnd every breath we drew was hallelujah
He'd promised he'd fight, and he wouldHallelujah
Could he do it?Hallelujah
Without Dumbledore?Hallelujah
Alone again?Hallelujah
He would try.
Maybe there's a god above
Dumbledore wasn't the only one.
And all I ever learned from love
Sirius, his beloved godfatherWas to shoot at someone who out drew you
He remembered their meetingIt's not a cry you can hear at night
But he was gone too, unable to help himIt's not somebody who's seen the light
Was it worth fighting to live?It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
Would it be so bad to let Voldemort win?Hallelujah
He tipped back the bottleHallelujah
And he criedHallelujah
He shed a tear for his parentsHallelujah
A tear for his childhoodHallelujah
A tear for CedricHallelujah
A tear for SiriusHallelujah
A tear for DumbledoreHallelujah
And a tear for those to follow.
