https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esilpuVICXw The first time listening to "Night Vision Binoculars," you'll probably be too distracted by the cheery guitar riff and cutesy chorus to notice the menace lurking underneath it all. "He just wants to walk her home!" you say. "How adorable is that??" Sure. That's a cute, schoolboy notion of romanticism. But there's also this little snippet:
I see you nearly everyday.I see you, but you dont see me.
Those are the first words in the song. That's what he leads with. And it gets much, much worse from there. After singing about the little moments he's idealized way too much ("We touched hands by the coffee machine the other day"), and describing his night stalkings in vivid detail ("With my night vision binoculars I creep quiet as a mouse"), he launches into a full-blown tirade of terror:
I know where you keep your skirts.I know where your secrets lurk.Im the boy thats calling your house.Im the boy thats freaking you out.Im the boy with social disorders.Im the boy with restraining orders.
This is not a sweet song. This is the sonic equivalent of covering a human brain in chocolate and calling it dessert.