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Smog – Keep Some Steady Friends Around (2001) | Track profile | Dork

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Rain on Lens
Keep Some Steady Friends Around

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Keep Some Steady Friends Around

Release date: 5th June 2001

From Rain on Lens

About This Track

"Keep Some Steady Friends Around" is a track by Smog, from the album Rain on Lens, released 5th June 2001. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Smog

Smog

Lyrics

Keep Some Steady Friends Around

Keep some steady friends around

Best thing you can do

Keep some steady friends around

Best thing for you

Find a little place to go

When you want to get away

Find a little place to go

When you have to get away

But don't stay away too long

Because we love you too much

But don't stay away so long

Because we love you so much

To build your own house

Might be the best

Following your own design

Like some kind of God

With a fence all around

A fence all around

But don't forget to put in a gate

Don't forget to put in a gate

So you can have some steady friends come around

You can have some steady friends come around

Someone asked me just the other day

About souls and such

And if I believed in Judgement day

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Track details

From Rain on Lens

2001

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Album

Release year

2001

—Natural Decline
—Rain on Lens 2
—Song
—Revanchism
—Dirty Pants
—Rain on Lens 1
—Keep Some Steady Friends Around
—Short Drive
—Live as If Someone Is Always Watching You
—Lazy Rain

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Smog — Keep Some Steady Friends Around

Smog — Keep Some Steady Friends Around

Keep Some Steady Friends Around

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Writer: Bill Callahan
Producer: Smog
Drums: Pat Samson
Guitar: Bill Callahan, Rick Rizzo
Vocals: Bill Callahan
Recording Engineer: Rob Bochnik
Violin: Jessica Billey