Let It Be a Hallelujah
Written during the sessions for Lauren Daigle's 2015 debut and only released a decade later, this is the rare vault track that holds up because it was never actually a reject -- just a song whose moment hadn't arrived yet.
By Song Reviews · October 18, 2026
Written during the sessions for Lauren Daigle's 2015 debut and only released a decade later, this is the rare vault track that holds up because it was never actually a reject -- just a song whose moment hadn't arrived yet.
Daigle wrote “Let It Be a Hallelujah” with the late Busbee and Jonas Myrin during the album cycle for her 2015 debut, How Can It Be, and shelved it rather than release it. A decade on, for the album’s tenth anniversary, she finally gave it a proper recording and release – framed explicitly as a snapshot of where she was between that debut and the “Look Up Child” era that made her a crossover star.
Vault tracks are usually vault tracks for a reason, and the honest test of one is whether it sounds like a reject or just a song that got crowded out. This one passes: the melody is strong enough to stand next to anything from that period of Daigle’s catalog, and the lyric’s request – to let grief or difficulty itself become the occasion for praise, rather than waiting for the hard part to end first – fits comfortably inside the specific, direct emotional register that made her early work connect with listeners who weren’t necessarily looking for Christian music specifically.
The arrangement doesn’t try to modernize the song to match her current, more polished sound, and that restraint is the right call – it lets “Let It Be a Hallelujah” read as a genuine artifact of 2015 rather than a new song dressed up in old clothes.
7.8/10 – a decade-old song that earns its belated release instead of just cashing in on the anniversary.
Hero image: “Let It Be a Hallelujah” single cover art, Centricity Music. Used under fair use for editorial commentary.