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Clear Off

Release date: 12th October 1984

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"Clear Off" is a track by The Fall, from the album Call For Escape Route - EP, released 12th October 1984. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about The Fall.

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Clear Off

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!

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1984

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