SINGER: Laurie Anderson

SONG: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 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