He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
Little johnny's all messed up
'Cause first he jumped and then he looked
Those tracks of time those tracks are mine
Little johnny's occupied
Come on, come together
Come on, come together
Little johnny had an ache
That hung around the poor boy's mate
Every time that johnny ate
The little sucker fed the ache
Come on, come together
Come on, come together
Little j's a messed up boy
Who doled the pain but killed the joy
And little j he's gotta confess
That when he's offered just says yes
Little j is all messed up
First he jumped and then he looked
The tracks of time those tracks of mine
Little j is occupied
Come on, come together
Come on, come together
'Cause first he jumped and then he looked
Those tracks of time those tracks are mine
Little johnny's occupied
Come on, come together
Come on, come together
Little johnny had an ache
That hung around the poor boy's mate
Every time that johnny ate
The little sucker fed the ache
Come on, come together
Come on, come together
Little j's a messed up boy
Who doled the pain but killed the joy
And little j he's gotta confess
That when he's offered just says yes
Little j is all messed up
First he jumped and then he looked
The tracks of time those tracks of mine
Little j is occupied
Come on, come together
Come on, come together
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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?
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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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This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I dont think lyrics have to be drenched in bullshit metaphors. I think the most meaningful songs are ones that are simple and straight forward.