Laurie Anderson - The Dream Before lyrics

Hansel and Gretel are alive and well And they're living in Berlin She is a co*ktail waitress He had a part in a Fa**binder 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 b**h 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