Lately, I have been listening to a favorite song of mine, Rufus Wainwright's "Hallelujah", without really knowing why. And then, tonight, I was discussing it with one of my Indiana People...how it's an incredibly intense, melancholy song, but how there is a note of...something, other than sadness to it. Because, as my conversational partner pointed out, while the song is a sad one, its title is nevertheless "Hallelujah", which is essentially an expression of joy and rejoicing. This segued into the nature of love, and how it is essentially something incredibly sad and yet worthy of rejoicing, all at once. A strange victory, if you will.
But lord, do I have a lot left to learn about it.
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