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?
If you fear, my dear, the end is near
Please do check your frontal hemisphere
Bitty chicky thinks the sky will fall
You should sense I've guessed, it just won't end at all
It's hard to keep from hoarding when you wake up Monday morning
In your life with no end in sight; You thought you'd die on Friday night
Everybody, please keep trying, trying to party like it's 1999
Even though we've got so much time, we need to spend it like it's 1999
If you want to close the bar tonight
Brace yourself 'cause there's no end in sight
You can't pace yourself and you can't take it slow
We have to drink it dry before this place is going to close
It's hard to keep on spending
Every night like your life is ending
When every night there's another there
Wearing you down in the moonlight's stare
Everybody, please keep trying, trying to party like it's 1999
Even though we've got so much time, we need to spend it like it's 1999
Please do check your frontal hemisphere
Bitty chicky thinks the sky will fall
You should sense I've guessed, it just won't end at all
It's hard to keep from hoarding when you wake up Monday morning
In your life with no end in sight; You thought you'd die on Friday night
Everybody, please keep trying, trying to party like it's 1999
Even though we've got so much time, we need to spend it like it's 1999
If you want to close the bar tonight
Brace yourself 'cause there's no end in sight
You can't pace yourself and you can't take it slow
We have to drink it dry before this place is going to close
It's hard to keep on spending
Every night like your life is ending
When every night there's another there
Wearing you down in the moonlight's stare
Everybody, please keep trying, trying to party like it's 1999
Even though we've got so much time, we need to spend it like it's 1999
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The Year Before the Year 2000 Lyrics as written by Seth Jabour Harrison Haynes
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dudes! c'mon! this song is awesome!
it's about partying all the time. yup