music fans help me out?

Am I crrazy or does The New Pornographers' Chump Change totally cop a riff from The Shins' Girl Inform Me? They totally do! Dan Behar, did you rip those guys off? I don't care or anything, I don' think it's actual ripping off, I'm just saying it's weird how similar.

1:50 into the song, the refrain!
"It is okay to be seen
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place "

That sounds exactly like The Shins
"this is no umbrella to take into the wind,
but before we begin, is there nothing to cure this anxiety?"

Maybe that's the point? Is this a kind of parallax cover version? I don't know enough about the making of Chump Change. Well, either of them, really. It was weird though.
EDIT**: and All for Swinging You Around is totally referencing Berlin! Something off Pleasure Victim. The totally Awesome Masquerade I think! Or maybe The Metro Here's Masquerade for your pleasure:

Gawd look at that. I think I still have a crush on Terri Nunn. IN MY DEFENSE I was thirteen when I got this record (yes, record!) Fuck "in my defense," this era of Berlin is awesome. Suck it, ironic detachment.