Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
This was a song he used to sing at the top of his lungs at gatherings. Half drunk, fully high, his arms around my shoulders and his friends while we belted out this ballad.
I remember when he described me as the devil. “Matthew” was trying to talk to him while I listened in and he referred to me as Satan. Another time I vomited from the shock.
Cut out like a tumour from his life; I was gone and my only contact was through Matthew, who knew that Tyler was making a mistake. He was trying to help.
I truly have no idea why Tyler came back; unlike in Fallen Through, it took him four days to realise he’d made a mistake. God knows what he was up to or why he changed his mind and came back to me, but I like to think that it was a realisation during one of these gatherings that spoke to him. Maybe he was listening to Hallelujah and was thinking of me and those moments we shared? I’ll never know, and I’ll probably never hear this song the same.
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