A colleague of mine agrees with me that Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley is one of the best songs ever recorded.  Wow. What can I say about this song except that Jeff was a prophet with one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard. This song is so intense. He didn’t write it, Leonard Cohen did, but the joy and anger and melancholy and the love and the regret all come together to create one of the most ethereal songs I've even heard.  The album it's on, Grace, Buckely's only full studio album, can be a hard one to get into at first, but once you get hooked there's no going back.  It’s all about dying and water and drowning and eternal life and God and suffering and being remembered. How did he know that when he was thirty that he was going to go out for a swim with friends and be pulled out to sea by the undertow and drown?