Magdalene

I wrote this song "in my head" (without my guitar) on an airplane soon after my divorce. I was seriously considering the humanity of God and at the same time thinking about the "someone" I would one day meet. You can read the lyrics as both spiritual and romantic, which reflects how spirituality and romantic love are essentially the same thing in my mind. Someone who heard me sing this was convinced that in a past life I was part of the Knights Templar, who revered the biblical Mary Magdalene.

Chorus
Someday I'll love you, my Magdalene
And help you believe in yourself
You'll see life in me
Love will flow into us
As rivers to the sea
Come quickly, Magdalene

Verse
The weight of the world and the masses
Press upon my soul
In dreams you appear to me
Anointing me with gold
We heal each other with our touch
Both equal and both whole
I wake to bright new sunlight
Still shining from our glow

Chorus

Verse
You have doubts about your loveliness
I know them all too well
I will hold you until you believe it
Release you from your hell
I will always speak the truth to you
As clear as from a bell
That you and I are holy
We never ever fell

Chorus

Bridge
I don't know what you look like
You are beautiful
I don't know what you do to me
You love me
You speak to me and fill me with your words
The most accepting sound I've ever heard