I heard this… just a woman and a guitar. Her voice is so full of pain, so heartbroken. You can feel it in your bones, in your blood. The lyrics fall short a couple of times, but hearing her sing the chorus… it made me weep.

Everyone meets a different Buddha on the road. There is no wrong way to love him.
I don’t understand why the same can’t be said of Jesus.

My name is Mary Magdalene
I come from Palestine
Please excuse these rags I’m in
But I’ve fallen on hard times
But long ago I had good work
When I was in my prime
But I gave it up and all for love
It was his career or mine

Jesus loved me this I know
Why on earth did I ever let him go
He was always faithful
He was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine
A love like this comes but once
This I do believe
And I’ll not see his like again
As I live and breathe and
I’m sorry if I might offend
But I will never see
How the tenderness I shared with him
Became a heresy

Jesus loved me this I know
Why on earth did I ever let him go
He was always faithful
He was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine

I remember nights we spent
Whispering our creed
Our rituals our sacrament
The stars our canopy
There beneath an olive tree
We’d offer up our plea
God’s creation innocent
His arms surrounding me

Jesus loved me this I know
Why on earth did he ever have to go
He was always faithful
He was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine

He was always faithful he was always kind
But he walked off with this heart of mine