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What most prisoners assumed was the basement of the feared Lubyanka prison in Moscow was anything but. In fact, it was the top floor, but as internees were denied ever seeing sunlight, they could only assume they were underground. Nonetheless, the Lubyanka was referred to as "the tallest building in Moscow," because you could "see Siberia from there."

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When this began I was talking with my dad
About the ways we thought it maybe could go
I reminisced about when I was a kid
And the morbid thoughts I couldn’t control
A drama queen who thought he’d end up on the list
And be waiting for a knock on the door
Never suspected I’d be lining up for bread
Like a Muscovite in 1924

Hard to believe we’ve been cooped up for a year
But the calendar and time never lie
It seems so normal now and that’s the thing
That’s gonna make me wanna break down and cry
But wait, there’s more, seems every single day
Brings us news we know we’d rather never hear
And so I’m back to those murky daydreams
And my rote authoritarian fears

A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka
A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka

“Lavrenty what became of us
And all our expectations?
Through long nights
Deep chills frights
All alone”

It’s fair to say I’ve read a lot of Bulgakov
And Solzhenitsyn, Pilnyak, and Trotsky
But it didn’t take a scholar on the 6th
To see how perilously close we may be
Now it’s tempting to declare we’re moving on
We were lucky that they’re so inept
But we all saw it and the fools don’t know
We’re just a couple little lazy baby steps from

A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka
A bullet in the back of the neck
In the basement of the Lubyanka

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from Betty Goo Sings King Snowflake and Nine Other Fast Favorites, released August 6, 2021

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Aaron Tap is terrible at branding. So he releases shit from both his current band Frank Shirts and, lately, the resurrected Boston trio Betty Goo, and maybe someday even a solo record. There are themes, yeah, but mostly it's whatever spirit moves the music that decides what name it goes by.

Aaron also plays and sings with Matt Nathanson, the Paula Kelley Orchestra, and Populuxe. ... more

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