Laurie Anderson The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin) Lyrics

The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin) Lyrics

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, yu can really be a bit*h He says: I`ve
wated 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