Mary of Silence

Man, I was hoping someone would have left a comment about this one. Is it about feeling tempted to drugs? There's that line "I can't take the pain" which sounds like a need to feel the pleasurable and numbing effects of drugs. "Take me into your skin" sounds like consuming the drug. Who is Mary? Does anyone know whether Mary is often used as a nickname referring to a particular drug? Sure, I know there's simple Mary Jane, but this sounds like something more potent than that. Heroin, perhaps?

I thought it referred to the Virgin Mary. Most of the statues within Catholic Churches show Virgin Mary with a hint of a smile "Oh Mary of Silence / You pick my heart with a smile." "Oh sweet Mary / Come inside for a while / Help me get a hold on you / Or I look in the night / I thought of myself beside you / Take me into your skin" This portion of the song sounds like a plea from a troubled soul. Some pray to Jesus to help them through the tough times, but Catholics sometimes pray to Virgin Mary (and that woman is always silent, no?) "We have a steady confusion / You're looking at fear" This passage reads like an accusation. You are not there when I most need you; perhaps our wordly problems scare you as they have in the past "It doesn't seem like the first time / You walked out in a hurry" In other words, she abandons us. "Help me walk with you / To the sky that we see / Shuddering in myself, in-my-self" reads to me as follows: Help me feel what it is like in heaven or more dramatically: I can't take it anymore! Get me off this Earth! It's cold down here! "Oh where" - Where are you? "Oh when" - When will you arrive? "Oh well" - Resignation.

I feel the she is talking about a sexual curiosity toward another female. "I thought of myself beside you" "We have a steady confusion You're looking at fear It doesn't seem like the first time You walked out in a hurry" They feel confused by their feelings and the other female gets scared.

I hear this one as the songwriter singing to the Muse, who she is calling Sweet Mary of Silence, which I like. 'Help me get over this block,' is basically the request in her prayer.

This song is about Mary Jane Kelly #5 of Jack the Ripper 1888 in conjunction with Mary Werbelow, who was Jim Morrison\'s first true love. The final track on the Doors first album is called "The end". Morrison originally wrote the song for her in some instances. The song ihas strange parallels to both of the women.

This song is about Mary Jane Kelly #5 of Jack the Rippers "time"1888 in conjunction with Mary Werbelow, who was Jim Morrison\'s first true love. The final track on the Doors first album is called "The end". Morrison originally wrote this song for ex girlfriend Mary Werbelow in some instances, however, the song has a strange trips where parallels entangling the women. Mary #1 is referring to MJK who is sweet. And #2 Mary has remained silent or asleep, literally unknown and unspoken. Present/past split or rip passage of time in between as if some 3rd party personal knowledge started to run amok.