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Lyalin Pereulok

from Three Circles & A Speaker by Steve Leaf

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During the Stalinist years in Russia, many were indiscriminately executed for reasons spanning the spectrum.

Olimpiy Kvitkin was a statistician under Stalin. In 1934, a census taken and he presented that 168 million people were living in the Soviet states. 3 years later, Stalin ordered another census be taken. The number came in at 162 million people. The decrease of 6 million was attributed to the gulags, holodomor, and genocide carried out by Stalin. Olimpiy Kvitkin was killed for his findings.

www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20157891

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Oh see I couldnʼt be
Much closer to meeting my own enemies
And now Iʼm stuck in the middle of the road
Now I am trying to revive
My career cause I think I just might have to lie
Iʼll try to keep the stats from getting into the know

Now the man at the top today
Is sending me a message- keep the facts at bay
Iʼve got to keep this from getting into the view
The big man said one sixty eight
Million souls are surviving in the Soviet States
But you see I counted one sixty two

Now I just want to leave
I just want to let my tea (Steep)

Steeper now, skyline of Moscow
Appears to be a prison now which surrounds
Me as I wait for him to react
He gladly looks up and I see
Iʼm bewildered by the whispers when they talk about me
And I feel the need to go back

Now I just want to leave
I just need to find (my keys)

My keys to the house I forgot
They have so I dust my kalashnikov
Will be with me when I sleep
The street was renamed Lyalin
And weʼve been there since my brother bought his first violin
In September, so shine the trees
Thirty eight, on a Wednesday night
I returned home early but something didnʼt feel right
I decided to stay in instead
Now SHH! Theyʼre here, its us v. them
But there were so many of ʻem that I canʼt pretend
To know which one shot me in the head

Now I just want to leave

credits

from Three Circles & A Speaker, released June 17, 2014
Steve Leaf: Vocals, Guitar
Dan Haefs, Drums, Percussion, Rhodes
Nick Young: Bass
Recorded at Double Phelix Studios Kalamazoo, MI: July 2013

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Steve Leaf Grand Rapids, Michigan

There is a quiet confidence to the music of Steve Leaf. He has been writing songs for fifteen years now. Some songs about love, some songs about love lost, and others about everything else to cover all the bases. Steve hails from Michigan and cut his teeth in the singer/songwriter scene of Chicago which is to say he usually tries to sneak a Wilco cover into his set. ... more

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