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Briscoe Operators: November 2023

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1.
Westminster Stairs 09:51
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Standing in the picture of a desolated square You’re no more of an animal inside Winter will be hard, spring won’t be the same Simple pleasures are a self-defense Take stock of the churches, take stock of the one-way streets Take stock of the smokestacks, take stock of a chill in the air Light a cigarette when you wade into the darkness And you’re walking through the walls like sacred veils Take stock of the things that prop this wasted life Like a blanket fort and the sun is rising now I can see it rising now You’re living in the city now Where no one even knows your name And no one ever wonders How you found this place You’re living in the corner room And no one wants to live this way And no one even cares You’re such a sick disgrace Your grief is not natural anyway There’s no future out there Just a suicidal pact A trip to the country in a scintillating dream Your friends want to hurt you They just want you in pain You’re just another monster Let’s go to the quarry Let’s see what’s up these stairs I can see you in their structure We’re giving back our time everywhere This grief is not natural This grief is not practical anyway This grief is not natural This grief is not tactical anyway This grief is not natural This grief is not actual anyway This grief is not natural This grief is not sexual anyway This grief is not natural This grief is not radical anyway This grief is not natural
2.
Warring States 07:25
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I think University Av. is underwater It’s just a thing, it’s just another thing Some things are like this, some things are unlike this I think university ave. is underwater What does this man do when he walks in on his friend’s body Does he run and cut him and hold him to his chest Does he call for an ambulance Does he act rationally Does he scream and cry Does he turn into a terrified child Does he turn into anything at all Does he just grab another beer Suck it up and grab another beer Take a walk around the graveyard Become a lucid shade Everyone’s watching you and no one cares It’s just a thing, it’s just another thing Some things are here, some things are over there What do you do with your life when you’re sixty years old And your partner suddenly dies without any warning The apartment becomes a black hole Get your papers in order Pull yourself together Bring the shades down in the evening You can pick out a film to watch You can’t go anywhere by yourself There’s a right and a wrong The dogs wait for the train to come in Get your papers in order Get your coffee pot ready Take a picture now Take a picture then Have a dream about high school Have a dream about being on the stage Have a dream about freedom Have a dream about losing your virginity in the science hallway The crystals of truth light the sinkhole in a street in a mid-sized city with an industrial past that persists today like a submachine gun buried in the churchyard and the snow turns into rain and you’re standing in the kitchen and time just crawls around and the snow turns into rain
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Deliverance 08:56
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Do you think it’s safe to go outside Can you see anything down there How’s it look on the streets Do you think the clouds will part Do you think the birds will sing Do you think we’ll see another day Do you think we’ll grow old Do you think we’ll get to live a long life Do you think we’ll be bound together for a short time Do you think we’ll look back on these days with affection or with fear Do you think we’ll have any regrets Will things only get harder from here Will we find any solace in chapters and bookshelves and bridges and rain Be insistent We didn’t raise a coward Do you have any convictions Don’t you have anything to hold onto Can you understand anything that’s happening When your parents die Will you have experienced heaven before Will you have been the edge of the world before Will you ride your bike again Will you sit by the window Will the sun come out and say goodbye Will any of this have been worth anything at all Will any of this be worth anything at all
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Hc svnt dracones 07:18
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Can’t say I do, I don’t know how Don’t know which main I can tap Don’t know which car I should get on I’ve made some horrible mistakes When the sun comes into my bedroom I’m as good as dead like a dead horse The dice are thrown, the flies are here They’re coming to take the trash away Let’s begin to love each other, if we can Your logic gets you anywhere You have some nerve coming here I will atone, I’ll just give up Do you think that’ll be so easy You’re phasing out, you’re burning low I’m on the other side of town You’re a specter in the backyard We were children now and then Let’s begin to love each other, if we try
5.
Corduroy Road 05:52
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Do you have the same feeling? Please don’t lie to me I won’t know when you’re lying Please don’t talk to me I can’t stand when you talk Please just lie with me We don’t have to get close Do you have the same feeling? Please don’t try with me I’m too tired to try Please don’t wait for me I’m not catching up Please don’t cry for me Don’t let anything show Just do something so unusual

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released November 20, 2023

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Briscoe Operators Syracuse, New York

Innovations in home-recorded post-punk from Syracuse, N.Y.

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