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LAURIE ANDERSON - The Dream Before (AKA Hensel And Gretel Are Alive And Well) [1987]

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Uploaded by on Dec 22, 2011

Laurie Anderson's clone performing an early version of "Progress (AKA The Dream Before)" called "The Dream Before (AKA Hensel And Gretel Are Alive And Well)", a song that would later be recorded for the "Stange Angels" album in 1989.

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

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