Song Lyrics Anderson Laurie - Maria Teresa Teresa Maria    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> A>> Anderson Laurie Singer Lyrics [Anderson Laurie other resources]>> Maria Teresa Teresa Maria Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Anderson Laurie Music Title/Track: Maria Teresa Teresa Maria Theme ID: 9318 Album: N/A Last spring, I spent a week in a convent in the Midwest. I'd been invited there to do a series of seminars on language. They'd gotten my name from a list in Washington, from a brochure that described my work as ??deals with the spiritual issues of our time??, undoubtedly a blurb I had written myself. Because of this, and also because men were not allowed to enter the convert, they asked me to come out. The night I arrived, they had a party for me in a nearby town, in a downstairs lounge of a crystal lane's bowling alley. The alley was reserved for the nuns, for their Tuesday night tournaments; it was a pizza party. And the lounge was decorated to look like a cave: every surface was covered with that spray-on rock that's usually used for soundproofing. In this case, it had the opposite effect: it amplified every sound. Now the nuns were in the middle of their annual tournament playoffs. And we could hear all the bowling balls rolling very slowly down the aisles above us, making the rock club stalactites tremble and resonate. Finally the pizza arrived, and the mother superior began to bless the food. Now this woman normally had a gruffed low-pitched speaking voice but as soon as she began to pray he voice rose, became pure, bell-like, like a child's. The prayer went on and on increasing in volume each time a sister got a strike, rising in pitch ??Dear Father in Heaven??. The next day I was scheduled to begin this seminar on language. I'd been very struck by this prayer and I wanted to talk about how women's voices rise in pitch when they're asking for things, especially from men. But it was odd. Every time I set a time for the seminar, there was some reason to postpone it: the potatoes had to be dug out, or a busload of old people would appear out of nowhere and have to be shown around. So I never actuall Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Poison, Ramon, Same Time Tomorrow, Sharkeys Day, Sharkeys Night, Slip Away, Smoke Rings, Someone Elses Dream, Speak My Language, Speechless, Statue of Liberty, Strange Angels, Sweaters, Talk Normal, The Cultural Ambassador, The Day The Devil, The End Of The World, The Geographic North Pole, The Hollywood Strangler, The Island Where I Come From, The Night Flight From Houston, The Ouija Board, The Puppet Motel, The Rotowhirl, The Salesman, The Soul Is A Bird, The Ugly One With The Jewels, Tightrope, Walking And Falling, Washington Street, White Lily, Anything But Ordinary, Complicated, Im With You, Losing Grip, Mobile, My World, Naked, Nobodys Fool, Sk8er Boi, Things Ill Never Say, Tomorrow, To Much To Ask, Dont Tell Me, Fall to Pieces, Forgotten, Freak Out, He Wasnt, My Happy Ending, Nobodys Home, Other Anderson Laurie song Lyrics Beautiful Pea Green Boat Lyrics Beautiful Red Dress Lyrics Big Science Lyrics Blue Lagoon Lyrics Born, Never Asked Lyrics Bright Red Lyrics Broken Lyrics Coolsville Lyrics Dark Angel Lyrics Excellent Birds Lyrics Freefall Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Laurie Freelove Lyrics Laurie Hugh Lyrics Laurie London Lyrics Laurnea Lyrics Hill Lauryn Lyrics Lauryn Hill Lyrics Lauryn Hill & Bob Marley Lyrics Lauryn Hill & Tanya Blount Lyrics Lauryn Hill And Bob Marley Lyrics Lauryn Hill f Carlos Santana Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy