Joan Osborne - St. Teresa Lyrics
Sit down on the corner, just a little crime
When I make my money, got to get my dime
Sit down with her baby, wind is full of trash
She bold as the street light, dark and sweet as hash
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon
Reach down for the sweet stuff, when she looks at me
I know any man sees you like I see
Follow down the side street movin' single file
She say...
"That's where I'll hold you, sleepin' like a child"
Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon
Just what I've been needin', feel it rise in me
She say...
"Every stone a story, like a rosary"
Corner St. Teresa, just a little crime
When I make my money, got to get my dime
Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon
You called up in the sky
You called up in the clouds
Is there something you forgot to tell me...
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
Show me, my Teresa, feel it rise in me
Every stone a story, like a rosary
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Joan Osborne St. Teresa Comments
"Relish" is on my to of 10 albums of all time, and i listen to an endless variety of genres from multiple decades, always on headphones, ... but this song! This song is something very special! Timeless
Also, I am forever grateful to the drummer that played in it, because he was the first drummer that truly inspired me and influenced me to really try and get creative with less noise. And then be loud again only when it suits and serves the song.
The first time I heard this song on the radio, I was driving down the highway and had to pull over because it affected me so powerfully.
Still one of my favorite all time songs
this is F'ing brilliant, fantastic, superlative & wonderful both song and video. Thank you P.S. doesn't the drummer look like 'Edge'
The version with Pavarotti and friends is much better
I love it baby!!!
This is a good song.
Epic! Summer of 1997
Yeah, relish is my all-time favourite album. So many powerful songs. ;o)
This music is just Amazing and perfect very beautiful song 👌.
I recognize the guy from something, I just can't think of who he is.
SI queréis conocer la historia de la canción, y también ver el otro video alternativo que se grabó para "St. Teresa", leed este artículo:
https://musicinmouth.blogspot.com/2018/08/joan-osborne-volviendo-santa-teresa.html
Still breathless after listening to this song.
Joan Osborne doesn't get the credit she deserves. I briefly met her after a show. She had rough hands.
The Boxer :)
Quintessential Gen X. The bomb. Miss the grit and grime of the early 90s
My G-d... This song is still brilliant.
Underrated for sure. Relish is a phenomenal album.
still listening .. hard truth soulful .. love you Joan
This is such a flawless timeless little tune 💕
Fewkin' bust out brilliant.
i love this album.
2019..
Still loving it, thank you Joan..
2019 up late and still listening to this since I was 14 x
Joan's BEST... in my opinion. Excellent video. I sure miss music videos and my vinyl records. I was the 1st Rock & Roll DJ in Dallas while everyone was at the discos.
From Russia, with big love)))
Awesome song, awesome video, awesome artist!
Used to play this w lil gal Taylor pdx and Lauryn Hill song on repeat..
OMG, I never knew there was a rock video of this song.!!! :-)
Good times!
Yeah....the best....what an album....
I looooove Joan Osborne.
@Jon Clingan My two favorite albums of hers are Relish and Little Wild One.
@Austin Barry
I will give it a listen
Thanks Jon
@Jon Clingan Sure thing.
@Austin Barry
Wow thought it was around then....I was 19 that year.... where's the time machine life was better in my opinion back then .
@Jon Clingan It certainly was better back then, so was the music.
I loved it 👍
Great Voice Great Video 😎
🙏❤️🙏
The promotion of "One Of Us" killed her career as a popular artist. It's been 23 years, and I'm still pissed about it. This was great, though.
Un ejemplo de uno de mis comentarios sin maldad as he se mal interpretarán...... Etc......para la maldad ...seguramente.
Y n'est this music is just Amazing and beautiful 😌👍
This song is really good along with most songs on relish...
Why is She so cool, is Joan Osborne a human..? I Think She’s a Cyborg... noone regular can not bee so good as She is 😀
one word....sexy
love Joan Osborne, well only knew one of us...since childhood. now discovering here discography
for a second i thought it was Pink!
I made a story about this song and St.Teresa of Avila. I called it, "The Trial of St.Teresa". It takes place in the future where religion is outlawed. A journalist investigating cults who still worshiped, got a warrant to seize the documents of St. Teresa's canonization and papers regarding her mystic visions, to show her a hoax. She makes her way into the inner most catacombs of the Vatican where she finds the documents. As she's looking at them by candle light, a folder slips out. They are drawings by St.Teresa of things she saw in her vision. There was a picture of the moon, but not the side we're familiar with. There was one of Jupiter with a great spot. There was one of Saturn's rings. Finally, the last one was of a spiral shaped object with stars clearly drawn inside. She looked at the date and her hands began to tremble. The pictures were drawn long before the first telescope was pointed at the heavens. She moved the candle and lit the drawings on fire.
My wife and I wore this album out back when it was new-ish. I remember having two copies of "Relish" One for the house one for the car. Not one "skip" on the whole album. I'd love to see her live. I love the songs, dig the vibe and her voice... words are not enough.
I was 14 and starting out my freshman year back in 96..Heard this song and loved it since..
Brings me back to then..
Not so good of memories then,however the music kept me sane!!:)
Strange video, but Joan's voice just slays me...
Anyone who knows shit realizes this song is about the defoliation of the forests in Vietnam courtesy of Agent Orange.
Every stone a story
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️☦️☦️☦️☦️ 📿📿📿📿📿📿📿📿📿❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✝️
2018 o/
Saw Joan about 6 years ago and got to shake her hand. good time.. Relish is a badass album.
beauty!!!!
Well, It looks like Joan Osborne is a former motel maid.
God I love her voice! <3
Let's face it. Relish is freaking brilliant. Every single song on that album deserves praise. Relish should've gotten more love and recognition.
Couldn't agree more...
Yes, it should have.
@Arctic 1088 What do you dislike so much about the video? I don't see anything so bad about it, and hadn't heard anything about it adversely affecting her career. It has a lot more likes than dislikes here, and it looks OK to me. Are you trolling or does it seriously bother you?
@Innocent Villain I personally dislike artsy pretentious crap. I am a strong believer in communication at the lowest level to have your point understood. I think this video went over a lot of peoples heads and was perceived as just stupid and weird. I really liked Joan Osborne as an artist and may be wrongfully blaming this video for her lack of success, but that's just how I feel.
@Arctic 1088 I just saw it as a depiction of a psychedelic trip, and interesting, not necessarily pretentious. Like Fiona Apple's Sleep To Dream video, only a different trip by a different person. A lot of videos are weird and still entertaining and/or interesting to people. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would have seen that in it, the psychedelic trip and potentially interesting strangeness, and not found it over their heads or perceived it as pretentious. It also has erotic overtones which some people like, also common and apparently popular with music videos.
There could be references I wouldn't know about, but that isn't necessarily a problem; I was among the people who never heard of the original St. Teresa until the song but that didn't ruin the song for me.
This is actually probably her best song.
This song takes me back to good memories. Love me some Joan!
best Joan Osborne song
Nice Hooters.
Joan is so beautiful💟
She's a Kentucky girl, hence the mandolin, which by the way is well played in this little ditty. Roots, y'all. Roots.
GA, ya´ll!
What are the backing vocalists saying following the first chorus, 'Badilla'?
Correction: 35 seconds later
0:52 For some strange reason, since you don't see whether or not she's wearing shoes until about 25 seconds later, I was wondering if she was barefoot while lip-singing to her song. (Of course, a little later, I could see that she was wearing sneakers.)
La verdad es que no te olvido Maria José es tanto el tiempo que me separan de ti asi como las diferencias de ls epoca en qué te conocí un gran saludo si por cosas del azar vez esto saludos...
there want a bad song on this album except "one of us".
Certainly my favorite track from this album.
who's still watching in 2017? just me?
Dario Carvajal watching in 2018.
same here. LOVE this song.
2018 bruh, lmao.
Me. The end of 2018.
Me in 2019. Have to come back to this song every so often. Timeless, classic!
Magic strawberries mmmm
Mystical. What a talent.
a very beautiful video about dreams! and one of the worst jobs for civilized world ever.
She's pretty
Great tune by the beautiful and gifted Joan Osborne.
Joan explained the video in her VH1 special:
It's about a woman she knew who found legitimate work off-and-on again as a maid, but would always fall aside due to her drug habit, and eventually turned to prostitution to survive.
Joan said that despite her personal struggles, the woman always had a sunny attitude and a held on to her Catholic upbringing. Joan started calling her "St. Teresa" as a result, and the nickname stuck.
That's why the video contains religious iconism (lambs and levitation, the latter being the real St. Teresa's first miracle of sainthood) and as well as numerous drug references (grass carpet, body turning into flowers, heartbeat strawberry, etc).
wow, that is sooooo cool, thanks bruh.
I come from a Catholic background but I'm not sure what the significance of the strawberry is? Is it like the apple in Eden? Or do you just mean it's a symbol for the human heart?
WOW!! Thanks for that explanation!!
@Sarah Riedel I don't know but the op said the strawberry was a drug reference, not a Catholic reference, so idk but strawberry fields or...? (P.S. Strawberry Fields is a Beatles song with lyrics that suggest a deepening state of psychedelic and/or weed/hash influence as the song progresses, even though the face value meaning of the title is the name of a place near where the musicians used to live, and there seems to be a similar progression in the video imagery here, in case that wasn't obvious.)
Amazing..
not at all how i'd imagined a vid to this song would/should be, but there it is...
e²njoy :D
Amazing song! I get the chills everytime from 2:50 mark and on!
@3:50 mark: Am I the only one who thinks that looks like Adam Sandler with a goatee?! LOL
Oh memories
Ing love you....🌹🌹🌹
Joan you are so sweet newzealand say hello keep sing.......x
Religious ecstasy as a euphemism for smoking crack with a hooker. Gotta ❤ it.
No. I don't.
I love this song...........I sincerely hope none of the goldfish died...................
LOL they are all dead by now :'U
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I'm amazed this song had a music video. I had no idea.
It's a good fit. I think she's getting high to endure the horror of that job, and life. The high gives her the fantasy of something bearable. But better fit would have been prostitute. St Theresa is the saint for prostitutes, etc.
It seems pretty clear that the song itself is about a prostitute, regardless of the video.
I'm sure- my opinion- that St. Teresa in the song is an addicted prostitute. "When I get my money..going to get my dime." That would be crack cocaine, or maybe some other drug. The song has tremendous empathy.
Michael Reid Actually, it's about a woman who sold crack on Joan's stoop in NYC. "Higher than the moon..." and "every stone a story..." At the end, the narrator buys some. St. Theresa is the patron saint of aviation, i.e., getting high. This song is genius. And Joan directed the video. She studied at film school to make films, but discovered her voice in a karaoke bar.
Thanks Steve, she is so real!!
The song and video do not connect.But my interpretation of the video is that her boyfriend got her pregnant during their last sexual encounter.What's happening inside her body is represented by the strange happenings in the hotel room.Fruit and swimming fish, reincarnation.The uterus has been referenced to as a "baby hotel" and menstruation as "housekeeping".Joan finishes her revelry in a rocking chair...a tool of motherhood.
+Andrew Wilcox "got to get my dime.... higher than the moon... sweet as hash." Don't tell anyone but methinks it might be about drugs lol.
Yeah, but the video and song don't necessarily match.
Plus, the St.Theresa that originally inspired Joan Osbourne was an
Unwed mothers' home.
An unwed mothers' home with drug addicted residents.
And in Catholicism St. Theresa was pierced by a lance held by an angel and experienced an orgasmic like ecstasy.
So, yeah this song isn't about ONE thing.
And I think the video has many, many layers as well.
Joan explained the video in her VH1 special:
It's about a woman she knew who found legitimate work off-and-on again as a maid, but would always fall aside due to her drug habit, and eventually turned to prostitution to survive.
Joan said that despite her personal struggles, the woman always had a sunny attitude and a held on to her Catholic upbringing. Joan started calling her "St. Teresa" as a result, and the nickname stuck.
That's why the video contains religious iconism (lambs and levitation, the latter being the real St. Teresa's first miracle of sainthood) and as well as numerous drug references (grass carpet, body turning into flowers, heartbeat strawberry, etc).
There's a parallel here with regards to St Teresa (of Avila). Teresa was always known for her sunny attitude, and even when she had doubt, she held on to her faith as a Catholic. "St Teresa, higher than the moon", Teresa of Avila experienced ecstasy during prayer, and was known to levitate as well. Joan was raised Catholic, though she rejected it as an adult. So she was likely familiar with Teresa of Avila. An ecstatic experience during prayer has been compared to orgasm or a drug high. I saw religious symbols throughout the video.
Andrew Wilcox Yes, and flowers and grass growing everywhere are symbols of fertility.
What a trip,just saw this video for the first time. Joan rules! long time fan!
I'm kind of lost, here: So, Joan was in internal affairs the whole time and just pretending to be a volleyball coach?
I am of The Knights who say 'NI'....and I DEMAND a shrubbery.
Acid trip?
According to CNN, the Vatican has announced that Mother Teresa will become a Saint, showing that Joan was about 19 years ahead on this one.
Joan Osborne is an amazing talent. Love her music and performances.
The St Teresa in this song, is the mystic Teresa of Avila, a Carmelite nun.
So everyone is just going to ignore the lyrics, huh? Folks, the song is about drug addiction. BTW, Joan Osborne is a lapsed Catholic, not Pentacostal.
St. Teresa Avila is Saint of "Little Things" and has been a saint for at least 100 years, so the song may be about her, to talk about simple, working class people touched by God. "Nobodies." But there are a lot of prostitutes in the Bible who served God: Gomer, Rahab, the infamous Mary Magdalene..God loved to use sinful but faith-filled women, much like he used violent or drunken men in the Old Testament...it's God's example of how deeply He loves sinners, and can use ANYONE full of love and faith.
Sainthood means nothing if we don't all participate in it.
@Hayley
Glad to see she had the sense to get the hell out of it just as I did at the age of 13. Although I still believe in God I'm sure no mainstream Catholic would approve of him, way to Cosmic. As he is not a hairy thunderer up in the sky.
nice fishes.
Great song by a wonderful artist but the video is totally bizarre it makes no sense at all for the themes in the song. Joan released an earlier video to this song in 1995 on Rock Video Monthly which is vastly superior to this. Rock Video Monthly was a monthly subscription service in the mid 90s. For $5 you received a VHS tape with about 10 videos from various artists. In many cases these were videos before they were even played on MTV. The tapes were considered promotional by the record companies to entice you to purchase the CDs. You could choose different genres for the tapes you wanted. I subscribed and have almost all of these VHS tapes. The reason for this bizarre video was because of a dispute with Blue Gorilla Records who released the original video along with Mercury Records Mercury then decided to re shoot the video in1996 so we ended up with this. The original video is on you tube if you wish to compare.
Kehlog Albran It was about miracles. Joan went to film school before she discovered her amazing voice. She wrote the song and directed the video. Genius.
woah thanks for the info!!
God is speaking to a hooker/lowly maid. The Bible is full of it.
She obviously ate a bad strawberry and got higher than the moon...
Wow wow wow! I didn't know about that. Would love to see the video you received!
Amo esta musica.
So, this is the song about HASH junky turning tricks to get $$$ for her dime bag??...
excelente canción
anyone know the instrument shes playing in this? doesn't sound like a acoustic guitar.
@TH3PROJ3CT2501 a mandolin
@O Morales ^___^ THANK YOU
Reminds me of my first full time job at the Ramada Inn in Woburn, Massachusetts and how far I have come since then .... with the help of Sister Teresa at Rivier College : )
Hi. Did you have a professor for English named Dr. Brad Stull at Rivier? He was my camp counselor in Colorado for a few years. Before he moved to Chicago, before he got married. We were kids really although he was four years older than me. Nice person.