| Matchbox Twenty – Push Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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So this was my interpretation of it- The girl is pretty insecure, questioning her worth and goodness. Then she's saying she doesn't know if she's ever been 'really loved', which I took as a jab towards the guy (assuming he had been her bf at another period in their lives.) And I feel like she's saying it's not over, because she needs him. Like she's in her time of need, and the guy is just hurting and feels like he owes nothing to her from all the emotional turmoil he's been through. But he's still unsure because he loved this girl and still has hope when she sweet talks saying 'we can change, yeah we might just feel good'. I think the chorus is actually a trade-off between the boy and the girl. (Since it is about emotional abuse, they are both playing games with each other because they've been burnt by each other. Trying to even the score.) Like the first chorus is the girl singing, coming right off of "we might change, yeah we might just feel good", which I believe, is her using tactics to persuade him to do what she wants at that time. Just another example of playing mind (and emotional) games with each other for ones own benefit. Which then she segues into, what I feel, gently asking him 'why you ever would lie to me'. And how she is untrusting of herself because consciously she doesn't want the guy she loves to hurt. I think the mind games she plays are almost unconscious bitterness she has left unattended on the back burner. How she feels like she can't say anything if she's always censoring herself, is why she lashes out sometimes (emotional abuse) at him for things she's been building up 'why you couldn't just stay with me.' Which then the guy, who is always just hearing sugar-coated not true things from her is just fed up- 'don't just stand there saying nice things to me.' And he's really standing up for himself saying 'you've wronged me' by really torturing him emotionally and that she doesn't have the right to do that because 'you don't know me'. This is him done with her trying to persuade him to do things that aren't him 'I can't change' and that he's just done 'I won't do anything at all.' I feel like the 3rd chorus is just the guy exploding from his frustration with the girl who won't tell him how she really feels, and when she lashes out in bitterness and abuse. He just wants to feel in control, because the control is switching back and forth like a game with them. Then the next verse it's just the girl trying to persuade him again with her sweet talk, realizing it's not helping her cause for staying together. She is going for what she wants, him. And her bitterness for what he has done to her before keeps bringing her back to a state of resentment of him, even though she loves him with everything she has. (Confusing as that may sound.) I think they both share the last two choruses. The girl is dealing with the wanting of the guy she's been in love with by telling him all the things he wants to hear, but the pain when he had hurt her in the past makes her just just lash out at the guy. She wants to be in control so she doesn't have to hurt like that again, keeping him in line like she needs emotionally. And the guy is dealing with the girls sweet talk, which is giving the guy false information on how she really feels. And then when how she really feels lashes out at him, he feels emotionally abused by the girl he loves without any control of the situation. He wants to be in control so he can not be kicked around anymore, like, he's taken it for so long he just growing bitter with her over that. She tries to change who he is to mold him to what she wants, which he tried and discovered 'I can't change'. Long story short: I think it's about the girl pushing for something she needs emotionally from the guy, who is hesitant and not really for it based on their history. So the girl is trying to communicate again, and the guy isn't fooled by her sweet talk. And she goes on to abuse him again, which turns into a boxing match between the two of them- and this song really captures the essence of fighting in a relationship. It has the conversing bitterness and anger involved, with the strong love they have for each other at the core of it all. Truly beautiful song. |
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