Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
Dust in the kitchen
Coffeepot
Microdots
Now we are coasting
Talking less
Breathing stress
Somewhere inside
I have died
So I will lie
In formaldehyde
People walk
Through my insides
When I get out of here
I get a plastic vase
And you get to keep the car
Or do you want me to stay ?
The things that I have to say
You've heard it all anyway
Send me to sleep
You always could
Fatherhood
Tie up loose ends
Make it stop
Forget me not
And would you really mind
If I told you a millionth time
The story of my decline ?
You never seem to take
The time to contemplate
Before you annihilate
Coffeepot
Microdots
Now we are coasting
Talking less
Breathing stress
Somewhere inside
I have died
So I will lie
In formaldehyde
People walk
Through my insides
When I get out of here
I get a plastic vase
And you get to keep the car
Or do you want me to stay ?
The things that I have to say
You've heard it all anyway
Send me to sleep
You always could
Fatherhood
Tie up loose ends
Make it stop
Forget me not
And would you really mind
If I told you a millionth time
The story of my decline ?
You never seem to take
The time to contemplate
Before you annihilate
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The lyrics in the 4th stanza are actually
'When I got out of here You get to keep the car And I get a plastic vase'
Hopefully I don't just have a weird version of the song.