Lyric discussion by gnjanson 

Cover art for Steal Smoked Fish lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

Recently saw the Mountain Goats live in Bloomington, IN (John's birthplace if you didn't know).

He told us that this was a song about the friends he would run around with looking for drugs in Portland. He said they were all good people mostly, but they were fucked up and many of them died.

This song is an ode to those old friends, dead and alive.

Song Meaning