Talk:ダーリン (Darling)/@comment-38340847-20200116154800

Here's a little trivia regarding one of the lines (warning for brief mentions of eye trauma)

The line "愛の眼球アイスピック！" ("A love ice pick to the eye!) refers to lobotomy, specifically the "10-minute lobotomy" or "ice pick lobotomy" created by psychiatrist Walter Freeman. He would use an instrument similar to an ice pick and insert it into the patient's eye to perform the lobotomy. The entire point of lobotomy is to scramble the prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that controls things such as decision making, behavior, et cetera. So essentially, the line means that the feeling of love (hence the term "love ice pick" has scrambled the rationality of either the narrator of the song or the person the song is directed at (I'm not entirely sure). For me, the lines "愛の脳内レボリューション！" ("It's a love revolution in the brain!") and 頭脳に感染！ 危険に発展！(Infect our brains! Progress dangerously!) further confirm this, as they refer to love taking over the brain and getting rid of all logic to the point where it's potentially dangerous (and lobotomies were quite dangerous, so it all lines up).

Anyway, that's that! Just wanted to share