I hit play on the record player.

The record that was already on there when I hit play was one I found by the dumpster a little while ago.

It's the soundtrack to a rock opera set in 1930s Germany. The album unfolds and there's a plot description printed on the inside, and when I read it, I loved it.

It's about all the people that work in a burlesque night club in Berlin. It sounds like it was like a

They know the nazis want to wipe them all out, but they still go out and put on campy musical numbers, make beautiful art, have affairs, and just act like love-sick adolescents.

Then there's a song that goes from being really silly and campy to something with screaming and crying and violent drums.

I haven't watched the movie, but based on the plot description on the record jacket, this is the scene where the secret police raid their night club and arrest everyone.

There's one more song after that, that happens years later. The war is over and a few of the singers survived the camps.

The record is all scratched up and my thrift store record player has terrible speakers, so I can barely understand what they're singing.

But I'm guessing

There's a weird similarity between what I imagine Weimar Berlin was like in the 1930s... and this neighborhood now.

I sure hope Nazis don't take over again.