Don't stand, don't stand so, don't stand so close to me.

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You're standing too close, back away.

I'll be watching you.
Every move you make, every breath you take.
I'll be watching you.

I'm looking through you. You're not the same.

I'm going to jump straight to "starts to shake and cough"

I started seeing this song as a way of socially distancing from people who are infected. Even before covid, because the world was telling us non-stop about how every flu strain was going to kill us, including young and healthy people, and SARS, which covid is a novel strain of, and at the beginning of Covid I was sure there were going to be dead bodies in the streets and the local hockey arena would be turned a morgue and mass graves would have to be dug. Avoiding the disease no matter what did seemed impossible, and one night I flew into a rage so bad the landlord called my mother and she talked to me afterwards and I was scared to death of being kicked out of my apartment. It's kind of surprising how quickly I adjusted, though. But the world will never be the same again and any minute now there might not even be a world left.

But I digress. I used to hear that song for years and had no idea it was supposed to be about a teacher who is attracted to or having a relationship with an underage girl in his class, or something creepy like that. I feel bad sometimes for not reading between the lines. My brother use to make fun of me for not understanding the hidden "deep meaning" of a song or a poem.