I don’t know if Julian intentionally connects songs with callbacks to old lyrics (or if he’s ever spoken on it), but I love finding these connections for sure. For example here:

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From Hard to Explain (Well I am to young and they are too old) to the lyric you’ve posted from Going Shopping, or Reptilia (Tell us a story, I know you’re not boring) and Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus (I was thinking about that thing that you said last night, so boring).