How deep do you love me?
How much would you care?
If I wasn't doing well
Would you laugh or would you stare?
From how far can you see me?
Could you recognise?
The shape of my body
Bursting at its outline

Cause the night after we met
I was thinking of your life
You and I spent hours talking
Yet so much hidden from my eyes
Please let me stalk you, I'll be quiet
From the dark side streets
To see that you won't go
To know you'll stay with me

Could I know your heartbeat?
All your favourite spots?
You couldn't bear a bit of me but for you
I would bear a lot

Are these the makings of a parasite?
Are you hoping someday I'll get out of your life?
My fears know it's not right
Never let these actions come to light

But I'd tail you through the mountains
Just to know where you could be
And all my inhibitions
Are begging you to set them free
Please let me stalk you, I'll be quiet
From the dark side streets
To see that you won't go
To know you'll stay with me

I would hang on every word
To know you'd share it with just me
You would be my whole world
And I could be your puzzle piece
Please let me stalk you, quiet
From the dark side streets
But someday you will go
And there's no meaning in my pleas

Cause everyone, everyone goes
When will you go?
I don't know
Cause everyone, everyone leaves
When will you leave?
Leave me

Side Street Stalker is about my deepest insecurities in friendships and the unhealthy coping mechanisms that arise from these. even when talking with my friends, I often get the fear that this could all end tomorrow, or that we will drift apart, or that our connection was never real and was all an act on their part.

this has led to a need for validation that we are truly friends, and to me being very attached to them. I end up trying to be with my friends as much as possible, staying up late to talk to them, etc. and even changing the times I sleep to better line up with when my online friends in other timezones are free.

and yet this behaviour could end up being the very thing that causes the friendship to fail, or it could have no impact at all and the friendship ends anyway. by the end of the song, I accept that most people are bound to leave your life someday. this of course does not really resolve the issue, as I start to wonder when instead of if the friendship will end.