You may have heard people speak about the split between the intellectual part of their brains/themselves and the emotional part. The intellectual part is the more rational, logical, lucid part of themselves while the emotional is the heart, the feelings, the sentimental. Some may label it the "bad," illogical and/or irrational side, but I don't necessarily believe that to be true. I think that either could be considered "bad," unhealthy, illogical, or irrational if you are invested fully or mostly in one side or the other, with one side influencing your actions, decisions, etc. It's all about balance between the two.
Having said all that (I hope I'm making sense!), I believe that Darren may be saying one of two things. The song is essentially about a disconnect, giving in to desire in an unhealthy way, and prioritzing and/or being driven by the emotional rather than a balance of it and the intellectual. So when he says, "And now I try to intellectualize," he could mean that he knows this is wrong and he is trying to communicate it to himself and others as an intellectualized process in an attempt to avoid judgment, persecution, facing the reality of the situation, etc.
Or he could be trying to intellecuatlize what is going on in an attempt to see the reality of the situation, get some control over the emtional side, and set himself on the right path. And that is the "glimmer of hope" in the "bad man's eyes."
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You may have heard people speak about the split between the intellectual part of their brains/themselves and the emotional part. The intellectual part is the more rational, logical, lucid part of themselves while the emotional is the heart, the feelings, the sentimental. Some may label it the "bad," illogical and/or irrational side, but I don't necessarily believe that to be true. I think that either could be considered "bad," unhealthy, illogical, or irrational if you are invested fully or mostly in one side or the other, with one side influencing your actions, decisions, etc. It's all about balance between the two.
Having said all that (I hope I'm making sense!), I believe that Darren may be saying one of two things. The song is essentially about a disconnect, giving in to desire in an unhealthy way, and prioritzing and/or being driven by the emotional rather than a balance of it and the intellectual. So when he says, "And now I try to intellectualize," he could mean that he knows this is wrong and he is trying to communicate it to himself and others as an intellectualized process in an attempt to avoid judgment, persecution, facing the reality of the situation, etc.
Or he could be trying to intellecuatlize what is going on in an attempt to see the reality of the situation, get some control over the emtional side, and set himself on the right path. And that is the "glimmer of hope" in the "bad man's eyes."
That's just how I understand it anyway. (: