Double Agent Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ben1025033 

Cover art for Double Agent lyrics by Rush

Its about the mind confused and not trusti g itself because of temptation to do what is considered bad. This is a representation of when emotions become symptomatic and start to cause depersonalization and derealization This song is like a description of a person experiencing a mental breakdown and losing there sense of right and wrong. This song is amazing as it does display the characteristics of so many people that have had what feels like a confusion between emotions making sense or when they start to no longer fit the role that person wants to live in their life.(believing they are good or bad and acting it out making the choice) At the end When the song shows that the person had decided to choose the light over the darkness is like when the symptomatic emotions have gone away and now that person feels the right to actually choose good over bad. The bad having had been clearly a very tempting use of the darkness(the desire to do something bad) but really its just like they battled their thoughts and emotions all night just to be relieved by the over exposure to their own dark and painful feelings. To rationalise those feelings and understand why the person feels how they do is good therapy. And it can make a person go from being completely antisocial to enjoying someone's "nearness"
The double agent is in us all. It is just stuffed down and locked away or it is understood and no longer seems to haunt or continually return bringing controversy and questioning as to what is right or wrong. Accept ur double agent in you and treat it gently. If you try to tell yourself your double agent is wrong.or a.liar it might only get stronger. So be gentle to your mind if you get caught questioning right and.wrong. any anger towards it is fuel to a fire and really there is nothing to fear including fear itself because there is always reasoning in experience. Find the reasoning and the double agent/darkness is lighted and becomes good not bad. If we could understand ourselves better then people would be able to go through these controversial moments much smoother and quicker. Btw the music and rhythms are so good. Makes me happy.