What has been said before as to the meaning of this song is accurate. Furthermore, the line "If these hands would only kill," tells of how he would cleanse so much of what is wrong with the world if he would kill people, yet that would make him worse than the people that he hates and is not a solution at all. So he is left to struggle constantly against the world.
No, The Dude Abides, the lyrics here are correct.
What has been said before as to the meaning of this song is accurate. Furthermore, the line "If these hands would only kill," tells of how he would cleanse so much of what is wrong with the world if he would kill people, yet that would make him worse than the people that he hates and is not a solution at all. So he is left to struggle constantly against the world.