Mary lyrics sarah mclachlan

To me it is a story of awakening. It has nothing to do with Mary Magdoline other than to make reference to her as the representation of the divine feminine spirit perhaps.

Mary - this is her name identity, her flesh.

She realizes her life has not gone as she hoped and she hangs her head - classic body language for sadness, defeat etc.

"To find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" Perhaps a shadow of her childhood self (because kids are so full of light and close to source) or it may even go deeper spiritually to reference how she is in her shadow-self and is not the light of spirit she came in as.

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"How long have I been sleeping and why do I feel so old"
A reference to time passing and her aging body, and perhaps also because when you are in a depressed state you really feel weighed down and old, tired, sad all the time.

"My heart is saying one thing but my body won't let go" This is the struggle during the time of awakening,