Hold Steady lyric nod to SA?

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Hold Steady lyric nod to SA?

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Line from The Hold Steady's new song Hurricane J - "You're a beautiful girl and you're a pretty good waitress". Think it might be a nod to SA's "To My Own Devices"? Could be, as Dave sang on their Boys & Girls in America album, and Craig Finn is nothing if not referential, which he has said he got partly from hearing "Lyndale Garfield" on the Mats' Run It. He also has a pretty awesome Husker tribute on the new Hold Steady song "We Can Get Together" - "There's a girl on Heaven Hill, I come up to her cabin still
She said Hüsker Dü got huge, but they started in St. Paul
"Do you remember?" makes no sense at all"
There's a ringing in my ears that's Heaven-sent

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