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Lagu "Hallelujah" oleh Pentatonix dirilis pada 2014 dalam album studio kelima grup "a cappella" Amerika Serikat Pentatonix yang bertajuk "A Pentatonix Christmas".

Lagu tersebut mereka kover dari lagu yang sama ciptaan Leonard Cohen yang dirilis di album studio ketujuh Cohen pada Desember 1984 bertajuk "Various Positions".

Lagu itu bercerita tentang cinta yang telah memburuk dan basi. Cohen menggunakan banyak referensi keagamaan, termasuk referensi ke beberapa wanita yang ada dalam Alkitab, seperti Batsyeba dan Delilah.

"Hallelujah" sendiri berakar dari kata dalam bahasa Ibrani yang berarti "Kemuliaan bagi Tuhan", menurut Cohen, dilansir dari laman Songfacts.
Video musik yang menampilkan anggota Pentatonix "mengkover" lagu "Hallelujah" telah ditonton lebih dari 756 juta kali di YouTube, sejak diunggah pada 21 Oktober 2016.

Pentatonix merupakan grup vokal Amerika yang terdiri dari lima anggota, yaitu Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola, dan Matt Sallee. Grup itu dikenal karena aransemen vokal mereka yang unik dan mereka telah memenangi tiga penghargaan Grammy.

Lirik lagu "Hallelujah" sebagai berikut:

Well I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

Well it goes like this:

The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift

The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya

She tied you to her kitchen chair

And she broke your throne and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

But baby I've been here before

I've seen this room and I've walked this floor

You know, I used to live alone before I knew ya

And I've seen your flag on the marble arch

And love is not a victory march

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Well there was a time when you let me know

What's really going on below

But now you never show that to me do ya

But remember when I moved in you

And the holy dove was moving too

And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above

But all I've ever learned from love

Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya

And it's not a cry that you hear at night

It's not somebody who's seen the light

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Bait lagu tambahan yang terkadang dinyanyikan:

You say I took the name in vain

I don't even know the name

But if I did, well really, what's it to you?

There's a blaze of light in every word

It doesn't matter which you heard

The holy or the broken Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

And even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the Lord of Song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.