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The Fall

Two Steps Back

Release date: 16th March 1979

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"Two Steps Back" is a track by The Fall, from the album Live at the Witch Trials, released 16th March 1979. Full lyrics are available below.

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The Fall

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Lyrics

Two Steps Back

Everybody likes me

They think I'm crazy

I pull my string and I do my thing

Two steps back

Two steps back

Two steps back

Two steps back

I don't need the acid factories

I've got mushrooms in the fields

Julian said "How was the gear?"

They don't sell things to you over there

A cigarette goes out when you put it down

Two steps back

Two steps back

Two steps back

Two steps back

Had a look at the free festivals

They're like cinemas with no films

You could make a fire with the seats

You could boil up some cigar dimps

Or get into the sound

Wait for the ice cream to come around

Two steps back

Two doors down

Two steps back

Two steps back

I meet my old friends there

They queue up for cash there

They are part Irish

They have no conscience

They get threatened by the cracker factory

Two steps back

Two steps back

Two steps back

Two steps back

Cracker factory:

A place where you get into the working routine again

Rehabs for no hopes

Prefab for jobless dopes

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Track details

From Live at the Witch Trials

1979
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Album
Live at the Witch Trials
Live at the Witch Trials
The Fall
Release year
1979
  1. —Stepping Out
  2. —Bingo-Master
  3. —Music Scene
  4. —Various Times
  5. —Frightened
  6. —Mother-Sister!
  7. —No Xmas for John Quays
  8. —Underground Medecin
  9. —Futures and Pasts
  10. —Last Orders
  11. —Psycho Mafia
  12. —Rebellious Jukebox
  13. —Live at the Witch Trials
  14. —Two Steps Back
  15. —Crap Rap 2 / Like to Blow
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