Permanent Smile Lyrics

Lyric discussion by hushlittlenightmare 

Cover art for Permanent Smile lyrics by Smog

"A personal meditation on death, what inspired it, and if a spiritual thread runs through everything he writes, he replied: "The particulars of the seven replied: "The particulars of the seven stages of decomposition were taken from L'Enfer by Barbusse, and the first line ( your back) came to me when I was your back recording in a dim studio, then walked outside into the sun. Aren't all songs hymns to one spigot or another?"

-from lazy-I interview: http://www.timmcmahan.com/smog.htm

That was supposed to begin: "Asked if the song is Callahan's personal meditiation..."