Maria is nog altijd een populaire figuur binnen de hedendaagse muziek. Hieronder vindt u een selectie van liedjes:
Hedendaagse artiesten als Sinéad O’Connor, Dolores O’Riordan van the Cranberries & de Israëlische zangeres Noa herinterpreteren eeuwenoude Mariamuziek:
Mother Mary, your hold on me
Denies my feelings
From those who can see
Your sacred wisdom
Can caress my soul
Confused and forsaken
By what I've been told
It always sounded so right to me
To offer my prayers
With the hope to be free
Mother Mary, is this wrong for me
To judge myself by what you see
And if I stand here
Will you stand by me
If the choice that I make
Is the choice to be me
I've heard your words
In so many ways
Do I trust myself
Beyond your praise
My heart has been touched
By something said
I want to go with her
I want to be led
I knelt at your side
Did you feel me
I gave you my all
To be nearer to thee
Mother Mary, is this wrong for me
To judge myself by what you see
And if I stand here
Will you stand by me
If the choice that I make
Is the choice to be me
You know I'll always be there
You know I'll always be there
You know I'll always be there
Can't you show me a way to believe
Have I been enlightened, misled or deceived
It always sounded so right to me
To offer my prayers
With the hope to be free
Mother Mary, is this wrong for me
To judge myself by what you see
And if I stand here
Will you stand by me
If the choice that I make
Is the choice to be me
People talkin' sound like dogs
Barkin' through the trees
Makin' no sense at all
Meanin' nothing to me
Mother Mary, quite contrary
I did not mean to
Let you go so quick
People talkin' crack me up
They have no clue
What it's like to be me
What it's like to lose you
Mother Mary, I grow weary
I did not mean to
Let you go so quick
People talkin' sound like dogs
Barkin' up the wrong tree
Take a good man down
And set the evil free
Mother Mary, quite contrary
I did not mean to
Let you go so quick
I feel my wheels have come undone
I've fallen off my tracks
Lord, I need your guiding hand
If I'm to make it back
Oh, make it back, back, back..
All My Life
Everything's been after me
All My Life
I just refused to see
Take me in from the storm
Come And Rescue Me
Under the wings of mother mary
Doing wrong is all you know
In the end
Do you know where you go?
You can't keep doing what you do
Sooner or later
It all comes back to you, you, you ,you...
Ohhhhhh
All My Life
Everything's been after me
All My Life
I just refused to see
Take me in from the storm
Come And Rescue Me
Under the wings of mother Mary
Mother Mary came into my dream
Sang her song, sang this very song
Mother Mary hoped we'd come along
To take a glimpse, a glimpse inside her mind
Mother Mary sing to me this song
She touched my heart as tears they run away
Mother Mary how can I connect you
We looked for answers, answers in our dreams
Mother Mary came into my dream
Sang her song, sang this very song
Mother Mary hoped we'd come along
To take a glimpse, a glimpse inside her mind
Mother Mary sing to me this song
She touched my heart as tears they run away
Mother Mary how can i connect you
We looked for answers, answers in our dreams
The family up ahead is playing mariachi on high
Feeling the spirit cause they’ve got God
They’ve got God
I need some of what they’ve got
And it seems we’re gonna be here for a while
Waiting, waiting for the sea to part
Mary would you mind talking to me?
Im so lost and I need a heart to heart
Mother Marys staring at me
from the cover of a spare tire
on a Mexi-cali van
Mother Marys staring at me
from the cover of a spare tire
on a Mexi-cali van
Mamma, I can feel the pain of the whole world today
I hear wounded voices crying in my head
I want to console, want to make them whole
But I fear its the voices of the already dead
Mother Marys staring at me
from the cover of a spare tire
on a Mexi-cali van
Mother Marys staring at me
from the cover of a spare tire
on a Mexi-cali van
The traffics clearing up
Oh but please Mary, stay with me
Cause I’ve got a lot of will
but I dont know where to aim it
Ive got some big dreams
But I dont know how to claim them
And I am no virgin
but maybe I could start treating myself like a Goddess
Mother Marys staring at me
from the cover of a spare tire
on a Mexi-cali van
Mother Marys staring at me
from the cover of a spare tire
on a Mexi-cali van
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.
And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
Battered and torn still I can see the light tattered and worn but I must kneel down to fight
Friends of mine what can't you spare I know some times it gets cold in there
When my legs no longer carry and the warm wind chills my bones
I reach for Mother Mary and I shall not walk alone
Hope is alive while we're apart only tears speak from my heart break the chains that hold us
down and we shall be forever bound
When I'm tired and weary and a long way from home
I reach for Mother Mary and I shall not walk alone
Beauty that we left behind how shall we tomorrow find
Set aside our weight in sin so that we can live again
When my legs no longer carry and the warm wind chills my bones
I reach for Mother Mary and I shall not walk alone
She was lost in so many different ways
Out in the darkness with no guide
I know the cost of a losing hand
Never thought the grace of god go high
I found heaven on earth
You were my last, my first
And then here this voice inside
Ave maria
I've been alone
When i'm surrounded by friends
How could the silence be so loud
But i still go home knowing that i've got you
There's us when the lights go down
You are my heaven on earth
You are my hunger, my thirst
I always hear this voice inside
Singing ave maria
Sometimes love can come and pass you by
While your busy making plans
Suddenly hit you and then you realize
It's out of your hands, baby you got to understand
You are my heaven on earth
You are my last, my first
And then i hear this voice inside
Ave maria
Ave maria
Ave maria
Sinéad O’Connor – Regina CaeliRegina, caeli, laetare, alleluia,
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia,
Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
Gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tuae, Jesus.
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Ora pro nobis
Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Nunc et in hora mortis
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Where have you been hiding?
Don’t you know we need you!
Things are looking pretty bad down here.
I know that there is beauty
Gentleness, and laughter
These are things you always stood for
Help us find them too.
Hey, there, Maria!
Santa Maria...Maria.
May I take a liberty
And say that it’s a shame to me
Not to live in harmony
Were all just hoping
Someone will step forward singing...
Amen, Amen
Ave Maria
Where have you been hiding?
Don’t you know we need you!
Things are looking pretty bad down here.
I know you hear the fighting
See the torch we're lighting
On our quest for peace and freedom
Help us see this through
Hey, there, Maria!
Santa Maria...Maria.
May I take a liberty
And say that it’s a shame to me
Not to live in harmony
We're all just hoping
Someone will step forward singing...
Amen