The song may mean that one eye, loving and judging, is to be put out by the unspecified liberator. It may mean there’s one loving and one judging eye, with the identity of the oppressor to be decided by lot. Whether the ambiguity is intended remains ambiguous. It’s a masterful use of double ambiguity, unless it’s a careless blunder.
There’s something about ambiguity.
give me a clue so sweet and true
the Daily Whale
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