Lyric discussion by joekool7787 

john clayton wrote it. i believe it's the john clayton who's a jazz bassist but i'm most likely wrong i just looked up the name on wikipedia and that's what came up

@joekool7787, this song was written by John Clayton, not the jazz musician but an amateur musician, and was first recorded in 1994 by his local band from Texas called The Sidehackers. Britt Daniel was a friend of him and loved the song, and consequently Spoon covered it. The original recording is not available anywhere except on SoundCloud. You can hear the original song at the end of this Britt Daniel interview: soundcloud.com/iturnmypodcaston/8-love-ways-girls-can-tell-with-britt-daniel-interview-me-and-the-bean-sidehackers.

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