We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

CharliZero's "Mary Magdalene"

by CharliZero & Walter Ford

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

about

Another #GarageBandClassic 4 #CharliZheroes :)


***As this piece explores the legend of Mary Magdalene, my thoughts rummage through the feelings of what it's like to be in such a place as hers.

Sending thankful vibes to the honorable Ms Lauryn Hill for her inspiration as well as all the women around the world a part of the universal protest for Human Rights.***

lyrics

MARY MAGDALENE
(A poem in song format)


It's You I understand, I'll listen
I've your gospel that's been given
In every book you've ever written
In me innately understanding who you are.

Your dedication and it is your spirituality that sets you so far apart from man.

Mentally, intuitively and unexpectedly
Yes you yearn for me
Cuz I am part of thee and...


Certain things about me may never be recognized
Revered or even respected.
As a woman in this society
I am the classic imperfection,
Yet somehow protected.

By the gospel that's been kept
In churches that I've wept
In brothels that I've sexed
And that's okay
A woman need to "know her place", they say.
Yet- still man pays to play
Still we pay to play,

(Yet)

As Mary Magdalene
I'd say they have to see
A piece of So'Un that shines within me
Can't be denied
Why is it I sacrifice myself for love of man?

Looked down upon
For being the open arms
Where the sick and the lonely and lost
Yet still they run in
And on and on and on and on and on and on and on
It goes on and on and on and on and on

Yet can I not be weak
In my humanity?
A sinner like the man
Who lusts my sexuality?
But again the man just never had the answers anyway.

Apostle to sinner to penitent.
Not a moment in the light of the So'Un would I ever regret
Or repent.
A powerful woman, I am that.
Don't take my sainthood I earned it and I would hope that you would give it right back.
When nobody believed
I did and no matter what
I was chosen.

And just because I am Woman,
Woah! Man
I am as much HueMan
as ALL Man.

credits

released July 7, 2014
Written by CharliZero 03 Jan 2014

Produced by Walter Ford

Mixed by CharliZero (Forgive the sound quality, if you will lol. I tried :)

Vocal Arrangements by CharliZero

license

tags

CharliZero recommends:

If you like CharliZero's "Mary Magdalene", you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now