Titled Catch Up For A Coffee, the track makes no mention of the fact he is one of New Zealand's busier songwriters.
Scott is also one of the country's better songsmiths.
There is a feeling the Wellington-based musician could step up to the podium a few times come the New Zealand Music Awards (Tuis) in October, both for his work with the Phoenix Foundation and his efforts with Bunnies on Ponies, the sideline band with whom he recently recorded Straight Answer Machine.
Last week, Scott and his Phoenix Foundation band-mates were nominated for a Silver Scroll award for the single Bright Grey, off the group's 2007 album Happy Ending.
Which is where the cup of coffee (or perhaps tea) comes in.
"It's all up for vote at the moment through APRA members so I'm buying all my musician friends cups of tea or coffee," Scott says via telephone from his Wellington flat earlier this week.
"We've never been nominated before so it is a great honour. Hopefully, we make it through to the shortlist."
Though the Phoenix Foundation and Bunnies on Ponies are two separate entities, they do share a key songwriter in Scott.
He describes the projects as "complementary".
"There are definitely things that mark out this as a different project, the main one being it is a different band, a different bunch of people who bring a different energy to my songs and that is always interesting.
''I think the main philosophical difference is that because Bunnies on Ponies isn't anyone's main band - everyone has other projects that they sweat blood for. When we get together we have a good time.''
"Musicians talk about getting a lot of pressure from the record companies or from the media or whatever but, really, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make it and that can become a psychological trap. That's not to say I don't love being in the Phoenix Foundation and don't love doing that, but it is always a great release to go out and play some Bunnies on Ponies shows.''
And because of that they are always quite a party, I think."
Last November, a year after entering producer Lee Prebble's Wellington studio to begin work on the Phoenix Foundation's rather good third album Happy Ending, Scott found himself back there, tinkering with his Bunnies on Ponies friends.
Happy Ending took more than six months to complete; Straight Answer Machine, the follow-up to Scott's 2006 solo effort, The Hunt Brings Us Life, just 12 days.
"I thought I was spent after doing Happy Ending and touring quite a lot . . . I just thought maybe we should do a little bit of Bunnies stuff. Then when we went into the studio, it just all started to happen so naturally and quickly. What was meant to be a demo session turned into an album very quickly. It was a remarkable piece of timing. All the planets must have been aligned.''
"We didn't really have that much material sorted. It was a case of me pulling songs out of my head in the studio and going, `Guys, let's try this'."
Though the words and initial musical ideas may have been Scott's, he insists Straight Answer Machine is a "band record" that benefits greatly from the input of Matt Armitage (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Tom Callwood (bass, vocals), Thomas Watson (trumpet, percussion, guitar), Craig Terris (drums, vocals) as well as guests that included James Milne (piano) and Julia Deans (vocals).
Scott says the process of deciding what song goes to which band occurs naturally.
If the Bunnies need some songs, he'll write some.
"It's not always that way, I assure you. I'm just thinking about the next Phoenix album at the moment and haven't written anything in a few months."
Scott plans to go on holiday after the Bunnies on Ponies' seven-date national tour.
It's important to take an occasional break from music, he says, otherwise "all you'd write songs about is making music".
"At the moment I'm just trying to keep my focus on this tour. I'm looking forward to coming back down to the South Island and playing these towns that, quite honestly, I begin to miss. I need a cheese roll; no-one makes them up here."
•Samuel Flynn Scott and the Bunnies on Ponies play:
>Penguin Club, Oamaru, tonight.
>Backstage, Dunedin, tomorrow night.
