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
Laurie Anderson - *The Dream Before*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGL2Ne0V9mI
What is his story? ... An angel in a field, being blown backwards, looking to the future, wanting to fix things
???
Makes perfect sense. Flora - all alone in the field of goldenrod, aka the golden sceptre - knew:
And the wind will whisper your name to me
Little birds will sing along in time
Leaves will bow down when you walk by
And morning bells will chime
~ John Denver