Hallelujah: The Song That Found God in the Silence A meditation on the song that became humanity's prayer Leonard Cohen wrote it in a snow-covered Montreal apartment, wrestling with God through eighty drafts. His record label rejected it. The world ignored it. For years, Hallelujah lived only in the margins-a broken prayer sung to empty rooms. Then Jeff Buckley found it. His voice turned Cohen's weary confession into something weightless and holy, a hymn that trembled between heaven and heartbreak. When the river took him, the song became his ghost, spreading like candlelight through a generation searching for grace they couldn't name. From a forgotten album to the stages of the world, Hallelujah has been sung at weddings and funerals, protests and Olympic ceremonies. It has been covered hundreds of times, yet somehow remains unclaimed-a song too sacred to own, too human to forget. This is the story of how a song survives when everything else fades. Through Montreal's winter streets, New York's dive bars, and the waters of the Mississippi, Hallelujah: The Song That Found God in the Silence traces the journey of music's most enduring modern hymn. It explores how Cohen's theology of imperfection became Buckley's gospel of surrender, and how a single word-Hallelujah-became the language of everyone who has ever loved, lost, and dared to sing anyway. For readers who believe music is memory, and that some echoes never die. Part of the Stories in the Songs series-where every melody carries a prayer, and every prayer becomes a song.