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?
Used to dream of time machines
Now it's been said, we're post-everything
As a child, imagining
Neckties and coastlines
I've seen the show, man, what a sight
Drenched us in approximated sunlight
The crowd was small and mostly blind, but kind
You're too kind
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
There you go again, on that circular trip
Lick the solar plex of some L.A. shaman
I'm out of breath, man, I'd better sit
Been living hard, living
All I do, all I do, all I do, all I do
Is I follow you, I follow you around
Well, I wouldn't waste another thought
On what is fair and what is not
The Quinceanera dress she bought
Was unstitched with bullets
All the guests in the garden screamed
Women and tires squealing
Such opulence, such misery
Unwinding, unwinding
All I do, all I do, all I do, all I do
Is I follow you, I follow you around
All I do, all I do, all I do, all I do
Is I follow you, I follow you around
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now it's been said, we're post-everything
As a child, imagining
Neckties and coastlines
I've seen the show, man, what a sight
Drenched us in approximated sunlight
The crowd was small and mostly blind, but kind
You're too kind
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
There you go again, on that circular trip
Lick the solar plex of some L.A. shaman
I'm out of breath, man, I'd better sit
Been living hard, living
All I do, all I do, all I do, all I do
Is I follow you, I follow you around
Well, I wouldn't waste another thought
On what is fair and what is not
The Quinceanera dress she bought
Was unstitched with bullets
All the guests in the garden screamed
Women and tires squealing
Such opulence, such misery
Unwinding, unwinding
All I do, all I do, all I do, all I do
Is I follow you, I follow you around
All I do, all I do, all I do, all I do
Is I follow you, I follow you around
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real
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Approximate Sunlight [Companion Version] Lyrics as written by Nathaniel Walcott Conor M Oberst
Lyrics © SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
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Anyone have a read on what the woman (Corrina?) is saying in the background? 95% of the population is not into what?