Hallelujah Analyse

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“Hallelujah” by Panic at the Disco is a song about searching for retribution for sins and coming to terms with mistakes made throughout a lifetime. “Hallelujah” captures the need for the speaker to come to terms with the mistakes they have made throughout their lifetime and own up to what they have done in order to begin to live as the person they wish to be rather than the person they have allowed their sins to define them as. The song uses an abstract setting and speaker in order to make the song more relatable to a wider audience. Although the “sins” mentioned in the song are much more extreme than the average person deals with Brendon Urie, the singer and songwriter for Panic! At the Disco, knows that it is much easier to identify with …show more content…

This clearly is referring to having relations with someone who he had not to. The speaker then proceeds to say “who was I trying to be” (19). He is trying to say that this is not how he wants to live his life anymore and he didn’t need to. The chorus contains the lines “All you sinners stand up, sing hallelujah (hallelujah!) Show praise with your body… Say your prayers” (chorus). Although at first listen this definitely does sound exclusively religious but can also mean that you can save yourself from the “sins” and become new. A new sin comes about and the speaker says “I was drunk and it didn't mean a thing Stop thinking about The bullets from my mouth” (32-34). The speaker said some terrible things to somebody who they care deeply about and doesn’t know how to make amends for this. He also says “No one wants you when you have no heart” (41). He doesn’t want to continue to hurt people and do terrible things because soon people will not want to be with the speaker. Although he has made mistakes, the speaker has attempted to made amends and turn their life around. By “sitting pretty in my brand new scars” (42) the speaker has fixed what they have done wrong no matter how bad it may have hurt them, and it has made them

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