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Call For Escape Route
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Original UK release
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First released 12 October 1984 on Beggars Banquet 12": Beg120E with free bonus 7": Beg120
01. Draygo's Guilt
(Smith/Scanlon)
4:29
I am the one who gave you a chance in life
How could you try and end my life
Chorus:
Draygo's guilt
Still apparent
Draygo's guilt
Still
How long is long in a hellish place?
And dreams today are draining us dry
And I proclaim some loyalty frightened me
Master bold morals get reptiles and ankles
Chorus
A spiritual king has to rise or perish
And throw away the charity handouts
Blow his nose on last pound note
Scan window menus and walk away but
Chorus
Sit still
Hate from the hills
And all the bands still dream of photo-Draygo
The county of Lancs dreams of photo-Draygo
Guitars in hands that turn and stab you
And sexy with bass dreams of photo-Draygo
but
Chorus
Hate from the hills
How many times do I have to say this
I should not have to say this
But each time the blood was clear like liquid gold
02. Clear Off
(Smith/Scanlon)
4:40
When the off license asks
I've been 2 months
Checks the crack
On their forehead
Should comb a hair
Over that
And these Czech shoes
Are a bloody reminder
And this town
Is not much different
The clothes, the stooped appearance
Over the hill
goes killer civil servant
I still remember
The white leafy border
The scheiss in winter
Over the hill
goes killer civil servant
There's a song she had before
Borough town
That had the snappy rejoinder
Who's there?
What's wrong?
Clear off!
03. No Bulbs
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
7:51
I'm hunting and I'm tryna find
A belt in the early morn
When your home is a trash mount
Look all over but you're right out
In need of black strap
No belts in this flat
No belts in this flat
The former tenant was anti-corporal-punish
Meant well, but it came to nothing
A light has just gone out
A bulb has just gone out
No belts in this flat
No bulbs in this flat
In need of white lamp
At the end of my tether, I destroyed years of hippy craft
Cut up [?]
Of a string and wooden chandelier or something
No belts in this flat
Give me a black strap
Give me a black strap
No belts in this flat
A bulb has just gone out, a neon light I have found
Here is Reginald with the set square neck,
Laying out cool dwellings,
For the next Britain in the evening
The apartments he has made
He is genius in allocation of space
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
No lights in this flat
Not like this place, you need light here,
even in the morning,
Compared to this, St. Petersburg was nothing
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
In need of white lamp
I'm hunting and I'm tryna find
A belt in the early morn
When your home is a trash mount
Look all over but you're right out
They say damp records the past
if that's soI've got the biggest library yet
the biggest library yet
04. No Bulbs 3
(Smith, ME/Smith, B)
4:29
05. Slang King 2
(Smith, ME/Hanley, P/Smith, B)
5:18
(12" side 1: tracks 1-2; side 2: track 3)
(Bonus 7" side 1: track 4; side 2: track 5)
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Credits
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Mark E Smith - vocals, piano
Brix Smith - guitar, vocals
Craig Scanlon - guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Paul Hanley - drums, keyboards
Karl Burns - drums
With:
Gavin Friday - vocals
Produced by: John Leckie (tracks 1-4); Mark E Smith and Brix Smith (track 5)
Engineer: Joe Gillingham
Cover photos: Lars Schwander-Olsen (front); Michael Pollard (back)
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Recording info & notes
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Recorded at Focus Studios mid 1984.
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