Laurie Anderson, "Hansel and Gretel":

She said, what is his story?

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.