Laurie Anderson Lyrics
"The Dream Before"

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
: hansel, you're really bringing me down and he says:
gretel, yu can really be a bitch he says: I've wated
my life on our stupid legend when my one and only love
was the wicked witch. she said:

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 ha
En 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