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?
See my love is asleep on the floor
In a pose that's familiar
See my sun will send you to war
If the battles won't kill you
Now I've a change in mind
Just calling all the time
That I don't want to live in your side
Though the rose is vermilion
And I find it so hard to survive
Without when within you
My sweet Lavinia
My sweet Lavinia
All the years buried under the floors
And the wounds in the parlour
Would have come up to greet us before
If it weren't for my heart 'cause
I've her name in mine
And it's calling all the time
For my sweet Lavinia
In a pose that's familiar
See my sun will send you to war
If the battles won't kill you
Now I've a change in mind
Just calling all the time
That I don't want to live in your side
Though the rose is vermilion
And I find it so hard to survive
Without when within you
My sweet Lavinia
My sweet Lavinia
All the years buried under the floors
And the wounds in the parlour
Would have come up to greet us before
If it weren't for my heart 'cause
I've her name in mine
And it's calling all the time
For my sweet Lavinia
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I'm with Mel Azavedo - I think there's a killing vibe to this song. However, I think he's planning to kill himself because even though he really loves Lavinia, he can't get past the death of his lover Lucia, and is hoping to be reunited with her in death. I hear the lyrics just a little bit differently than what they have up here:
See my love asleep on the floor In a pose that's familiar See, my son, we'll send you to war If the battle don't kill you
But I've a change in mind *She's calling all the time
That I don't want to live in your side Though the rose is vermillion And I'd find it so hard to survive Without when within you
My sweet Lavinia My sweet Lavinia
All the years buried under the floors And the wounds in the parlour Would have come up to greet us before If it weren't for my heart because
*I've her name in mind And it's calling all the time
For my sweet lavinia
Lucia my love, in the darkness shine Lucia my love, and you're not mine Lucia my love, in silence so long Lucia my love, no promise no more, Lucia, I walk this unknown My Lucia my lover my own Lucia, my love, i leave here soon Lucia, my love, my life's over when i come home Lucia, Lucia, Lucia, Lucia... two three four