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'' in 1971, with the previously unreleased nineteen-minute unedited take of the track appearing on the album's 1992 CD re-release. According to

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the song was "supposedly cut to kill time until

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arrived" at the studio. A live version of "Escape-ism" is included on Brown's live album ''

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''.

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