《Maria Teresa Teresa Maria(Live)》歌词

歌曲： Maria Teresa Teresa Maria(Live)

所属专辑：The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories

歌手： Laurie Anderson

时长： 05:43

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Maria Teresa Teresa Maria (Live) - Laurie Anderson[00:00:00]

Last spring I spent a week in a convent in the midwest[00:00:03]

I'd been invited there to do a[00:00:10]

Series of seminars on language[00:00:11]

They'd gotten my name from a list in washington[00:00:16]

From a brochure that described my work as[00:00:20]

Deals with the spiritual issues of our time[00:00:24]

Undoubtedly a blurb I had written myself[00:00:29]

Because of this and also because men[00:00:36]

Were not allowed to enter the convert[00:00:40]

They asked me to come out[00:00:44]

The night I arrived they had a party[00:00:48]

For me in a nearby town[00:00:51]

In a downstairs lounge of a crystal[00:00:53]

Lane's bowling alley[00:00:56]

The alley was reserved for the nuns[00:01:00]

For their tuesday night tournaments[00:01:03]

It was a pizza party[00:01:07]

And the lounge was decorated to look like a cave[00:01:10]

Every surface was covered with that spray on rock[00:01:15]

That's usually used for soundproofing in this case[00:01:19]

It had the opposite effect: it amplified every sound[00:01:25]

Now the nuns were in the middle[00:01:31]

Of their annual tournament playoffs[00:01:33]

And we could hear all the bowling balls[00:01:36]

Rolling very slowly down the aisles above us[00:01:38]

Making the rock club stalactites[00:01:43]

Tremble and resonate[00:01:46]

Finally the pizza arrived and the mother superior[00:01:51]

Began to bless the food[00:01:56]

Now this woman normally had a[00:01:59]

Gruffed low pitched[00:02:01]

Speaking voice but as soon as she[00:02:02]

Began to pray her voice rose[00:02:05]

Became pure bell like like a child's[00:02:10]

The prayer went on and on increasing[00:02:20]

In volume each time a sister got a strike[00:02:23]

Rising in pitch dear father in heaven[00:02:26]

The next day I was scheduled to begin[00:02:38]

This seminar on language[00:02:41]

I'd been very struck by this prayer and[00:02:44]

I wanted to talk about how[00:02:47]

Women's voices rise in pitch[00:02:48]

When they're asking for things[00:02:52]

Especially from men[00:02:55]

But it was odd every time I set[00:02:58]

A time for the seminar[00:03:01]

There was some reason to postpone it[00:03:03]

The potatoes had to be dug out[00:03:06]

Or a busload of old people would[00:03:09]

Appear out of nowhere[00:03:12]

And have to be shown around[00:03:16]

So I never actually did the seminar[00:03:19]

But I spent a lot of time there[00:03:25]

Walking around the grounds[00:03:28]

And looking at all the crops[00:03:30]

Which were all labeled[00:03:32]

And there was also a neatly laid out cemetery[00:03:35]

Hundreds of identical white crosses in rows[00:03:39]

And there were labeled maria[00:03:44]

Teresa maria teresa[00:03:49]

Teresa maria and the only sadder cemetery[00:03:55]

I saw was last summer in switzerland[00:04:00]

And I was dragged there by a[00:04:06]

Hermann hesse fanatic[00:04:07]

Very serecirely swide[00:04:10]

Who had never recovered from reading[00:04:12]

And one hot august morning[00:04:16]

When the sky was quiet[00:04:19]

We made a pilgrimage to the cemetery[00:04:21]

We brought a lot of flowers and we[00:04:25]

Finally found his grave[00:04:28]

It was marked with a huge fur tree and[00:04:30]

A mammoth stone[00:04:33]

That said hesse in huge helvetica bold letters[00:04:35]

It looked more like a marquee than a tombstone[00:04:41]

And around the corner was this[00:04:44]

Tiny stone for his wife[00:04:47]

Nina and on it was one word auslander foreigner[00:04:49]

And this made me so sad and so mad[00:05:02]

That I was sorry[00:05:07]

I'd brought the flowers anyway I[00:05:08]

Decided to leave the flowers[00:05:13]

Along with a mean note and it read[00:05:16]

Even though you're not my favorite[00:05:23]

Writer by long shots[00:05:24]

I leave these flowers on your resting spot[00:05:32]