The Dream Before - Laurie Anderson

Hansel and Gretel are alive and well

And they’re living in Berlin

She is a cocktail waitress

He had a part in a Fassbinder film

And they sit around at night now

Drinking schnapps and gin

And she says, 'Hansel, you’re really bringing me down.'

And he says, 'Gretel, you can really be a bitch.'

He says, I’ve wasted my life on our stupid legend

When my one and only love was the wicked witch

She said, What is history?

And he said, History is an angel

Being blown

Backwards

Into the future

He said: History is a pile of debris

And the angel wants to go back and fix things

To repair the things that have been broken

But there is a storm blowing from Paradise

And the storm keeps blowing the angel

Backwards

Into the future

And this storm, this storm

Is called

Progress