Driftless Pony Club's "Maps of Low Fidelity"

Last time I listened to Driftless Pony Club's Expert, a line in "Maps of Low Fidelity" sounded sort of familiar to me:  "Streets and signs have abandoned their roles."

While it doesn't bear much resemblance lyrically, the same sort of idea is in the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" - "Signs in the street that say where you’re going / Are somewhere just being their own."

However, I don't know if this similarity was intentional.  There really isn't anything else in "Maps of Low Fidelity" - lyrically or musically - that would indicate any influence by the Byrds.  The first line is "You swallow birds," but if anything, that's a very tenuous connection, so I think the mention of birds (and the part about street signs) is just coincidental.