Flake Music - Spanway Hits

Flake Music are The Shins' James Mercer's first band (what a weird sentence). This band slowly morphed into the shins sometime around 2001, I don't know or feel like looking it up right now.
Anyway, their only full album When You Land Here, It's Time to Return is a low-fi indie jamboree. Its got its hits and misses, and "Spanway Hits" is definitely one of the...hits. The lyrical melody in this song is fantastic.  It jumps all over the place offering a sporadic, wavy cover over a toned down guitar that accents in all the right spots. You can definitely tell that James Mercer listened to Guided By Voices (see earlier post).
And of course who could forget Mercer's always cryptic, vivid lyrics.

Use a pen to reflect
what you've got left to protect
on the old dusty shelves
in your childhood room
you've got a lot to go on:
posters of Simon LeBon
all might help you decide
In case you ever try
They just want you to come by
The florist in foam
A rigid folk’s home in time that I might cry
Cut all these ties you’ll see
How far apart we are
No two of us sees or acts alike
Wasting time and pretend
You’ve got the words to defend
well every bias you’ve learned while being human
Remember that we all knew
Riding big wheels was cool
We’d give it all to be that dumb again
These are all bonds and ties
In spite of what they are
No two of us tells or thinks the same
Cut all these ties you’ll see
How far apart we are
Those are our bonds and ties
In spite of what they are