It seems to me like the two verses are two different sides of his (or anyone's) mind. Everyone does things we know are wrong. Sometimes we don't even care that they are wrong. Yet overall we generally try and do good with our lives. The two verses of this song are almost exact inverses of each other. It seems like this is done to highlight the contradiction in our minds between what want to do and what we know is right and the struggle that goes on internally over it.
It seems to me like the two verses are two different sides of his (or anyone's) mind. Everyone does things we know are wrong. Sometimes we don't even care that they are wrong. Yet overall we generally try and do good with our lives. The two verses of this song are almost exact inverses of each other. It seems like this is done to highlight the contradiction in our minds between what want to do and what we know is right and the struggle that goes on internally over it.