Laurie Anderson 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 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