《Maria Teresa Teresa Maria(Live)》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:46] Tremble and resonate

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

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

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

[00:02:01] Gruffed low pitched

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:41] This seminar on language

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

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

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

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

[00:02:55] Especially from men

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:12] Appear out of nowhere

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

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

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

[00:03:28] Walking around the grounds

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

[00:03:32] Which were all labeled

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

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

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

[00:03:49] Teresa maria teresa

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

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

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

[00:04:07] Hermann hesse fanatic

[00:04:10] Very serecirely swide

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

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

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

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

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

[00:04:28] Finally found his grave

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

[00:04:33] A mammoth stone

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:05:07] That I was sorry

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

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

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

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

[00:05:24] Writer by long shots

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