The Dream Before
(for Walter Benjamin)
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 now
Drinking Schnapps and Gin
And she says: Hansel, you are 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 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
Laurie Anderson
Kuriosa: Det här är egentligen en låt, för Laurie är musiker. Hon är dessutom sambo med Lou Reed.
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