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?
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN!
VERSUS!
J.R.R TOLKIEN!
BEGIN!
George:
Brace yourself! Gather up your trolls and your soldier elves,
And your ents and your orcs, and your wargs and your Stings,
Your dwarves and Glamdrings, 'cause there's a new literary Lord in the Ring!
My readers fall in love with every character I've written!
Then I kill 'em! (Aaaah!) And they're like, "No, he didn't!"
All your bad guys die and your good guys survive!
We can tell what's gonna happen by page and age five!
Tell your all-seeing eye to find some sex in your movies! (Yeah!)
Ditch the Goonie and cast a couple boobies!
There's edgier plots in that David the Gnome!
Your hobbit-hole heroes can't handle my throne!
Tokien:
Kings, Queens, dragons, dwarves,
Horses, fortresses, magic, and swords!
You Hob-bit my whole shit, you uninspired hack!
You want a war, George? Welcome to Shire-raq!
In book sales, you've got nothing to say!
I'm number one and two! You're under Fifty Shades of Grey!
I got the prose of a pro! Your shit's sub-par!
You're a pirate! You even stole my "R. R."!
We all know the world is full of chance and anarchy!
So, yes, it's true to life for characters to die randomly,
But news flash: the genre's called fantasy!
It's meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee!
George:
I conscientiously object to what you're doing on these beats
Ill cut you like my teeth on Beauty and the Beast
You went too deep, Professor Tweed Pants
We dont need the backstory of every fucking tree branch
Tolkien
I cut my teeth in the trenches of the Somme
You LARPed your Santa Claus ass through Vietnam
And its hard for me to take criticism on clothes
From a dude who sends a raven to say hi to his toes!
George:
Man, your fat jokes are worse than your pipe smoke
My show's the hottest thing on HBO!
Im rock and roll! You're a nerdy little nebbish
And I may be dirty but you got a hairy foot fetish, dawg
Even the names of your characters suck!
You got Boffers and Bofurs and Brandybucks
I got a second breakfast for all them goofy fucks
Lift up my gut and Tea Baggins my nuts
Tolkien:
C.S. Lewis and I were just discussing
How you and Jon Snow both know nothing
Because the backstory to my box office is billions
Got my children makin' billions off my Silmarillions
And im more Rock n' Roll than you've ever been
Dont believe me? Ask Led Zeppelin!
You cant reach this fellow, shit im too towerin'
Every time I battle its return of the king!
WHO WON?
WHO'S NEXT?
YOU DECIDE!
EPIC RAP AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BATTLES OF HISTORY
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN!
VERSUS!
J.R.R TOLKIEN!
BEGIN!
George:
Brace yourself! Gather up your trolls and your soldier elves,
And your ents and your orcs, and your wargs and your Stings,
Your dwarves and Glamdrings, 'cause there's a new literary Lord in the Ring!
My readers fall in love with every character I've written!
Then I kill 'em! (Aaaah!) And they're like, "No, he didn't!"
All your bad guys die and your good guys survive!
We can tell what's gonna happen by page and age five!
Tell your all-seeing eye to find some sex in your movies! (Yeah!)
Ditch the Goonie and cast a couple boobies!
There's edgier plots in that David the Gnome!
Your hobbit-hole heroes can't handle my throne!
Tokien:
Kings, Queens, dragons, dwarves,
Horses, fortresses, magic, and swords!
You Hob-bit my whole shit, you uninspired hack!
You want a war, George? Welcome to Shire-raq!
In book sales, you've got nothing to say!
I'm number one and two! You're under Fifty Shades of Grey!
I got the prose of a pro! Your shit's sub-par!
You're a pirate! You even stole my "R. R."!
We all know the world is full of chance and anarchy!
So, yes, it's true to life for characters to die randomly,
But news flash: the genre's called fantasy!
It's meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee!
George:
I conscientiously object to what you're doing on these beats
Ill cut you like my teeth on Beauty and the Beast
You went too deep, Professor Tweed Pants
We dont need the backstory of every fucking tree branch
Tolkien
I cut my teeth in the trenches of the Somme
You LARPed your Santa Claus ass through Vietnam
And its hard for me to take criticism on clothes
From a dude who sends a raven to say hi to his toes!
George:
Man, your fat jokes are worse than your pipe smoke
My show's the hottest thing on HBO!
Im rock and roll! You're a nerdy little nebbish
And I may be dirty but you got a hairy foot fetish, dawg
Even the names of your characters suck!
You got Boffers and Bofurs and Brandybucks
I got a second breakfast for all them goofy fucks
Lift up my gut and Tea Baggins my nuts
Tolkien:
C.S. Lewis and I were just discussing
How you and Jon Snow both know nothing
Because the backstory to my box office is billions
Got my children makin' billions off my Silmarillions
And im more Rock n' Roll than you've ever been
Dont believe me? Ask Led Zeppelin!
You cant reach this fellow, shit im too towerin'
Every time I battle its return of the king!
WHO WON?
WHO'S NEXT?
YOU DECIDE!
EPIC RAP AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BATTLES OF HISTORY
Lyrics submitted by Jirachibi
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