{"id":26638,"date":"2016-11-13T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26638"},"modified":"2016-11-13T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:55:33","slug":"watch-snls-emotional-opening-hillary-singing-leonards-hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-11\/watch-snls-emotional-opening-hillary-singing-leonards-hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SNL’s Emotional Opening: Hillary Singing Leonard’s “Hallelujah”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a tough week for many owing to the Presidential election and the loss of the great Leonard Cohen<\/strong>. Last night\u00a0Saturday Night Live<\/strong> smartly wove the two through\u00a0Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton<\/strong>\u00a0persona accompanying herself on the piano and singing Cohen’s Hallelujah<\/em><\/strong>, giving new meaning to many of the song’s couplets.<\/p>\n

McKinnon’s Clinton<\/strong>\u00a0particularly resonated in the following lines:<\/p>\n

“Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
\nThat David played, and it pleased the Lord
\nBut you don’t really care for music, do you?
\n….
\nI’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
\nLove is not a victory march
\nIt’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah
\n….
\nI did my best, it wasn’t much
\nI couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
\nI’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
\nAnd even though
\nIt all went wrong
\nI’ll stand before the Lord of song
\nWith nothing on my tongue but hallelujah”<\/p>\n

At the end McKinnon<\/strong>, as Clinton<\/strong>, said “I’m not giving up and neither should you.”<\/p>\n

Never give up the fight people. Keep evolving. There’s work to be done in the name of love.<\/p>\n