Progress (live)

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

And this storm

This storm

Is called

Progress