Strange Angels

Laurie Anderson Strange Angels專輯

8.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 at night now drinking schnapps and gin
and she
:hansel, you're really bringing me down and he says:gretel, yu
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:
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 ha
En 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