| Tool – Pushit Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[sKRiBEL:19499] That was for Prison Sex unless he was talking about the song before Prison Sex but didn't seem like it | |
| Tool – Pushit Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[FC:19498] I think you nailed it. You're absolutely right. | |
| Tool – Pushit Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This is about a romantic relationship where one person doesn't want to let go but the other does. "I saw the gap again today While you were begging me to stay Take care not to make me enter If I do we both may disappear" Gap again is that feeling of emptiness when you know you don't love that person or have feelings for them the way you use to, and it makes it even difficult to leave the relationship when the other person is begging you to stay. Make me enter is entering back into a relationship after breaking up or trying to stay away from it because it's bad or unhealthy type of relationship to the point where both won't be making any progress is they decide to stay together. May disappear = no progress = no point. "You know that I will choke until I swallow Choke this infant here before me What is this but my reflection? Who am I to judge or strike you down?" Now there was someone who mentioned this was about Maynard's childhood of abuse and I can definitely see that being the point, esp. if these lyrics are straightforward rather than analytical. If it's not about his childhood, I think it's another form of expressing how much of a pushover he has been in the relationship "I will choke until I swallow" and it's making him feel like an immature infant in the relationship since he depended to much on the other person. "Who am I to judge or strike you down?" Either way, whether he's referring to himself, both of them, or the other person in the relationship, he doesn't feel as if he can fight back or hold anything against the person for what he/she has done in their relationship. "But you're pushing me shoving me You still love me You still love me but you didn't need to shit on me... She didn't mean to pushit on me" She messed up. She keeps trying. She's not trying to let him go. She still loves him even though she keeps doing things in the relationship that are messed up. She didn't mean to push the relationship on him, but she keeps doing it anyways. "Rest your trigger on my finger Bang my head upon the fault line You'd better take care not to make me enter 'Cause if I do we both may disappear" Now she's using manipulation to try to keep him in the relationship by making him feel as if everything was his fault, he's to blame, setting him up for a guilt-trip "rest your trigger on my finger" and he's still trying to tell her that it's not a good idea to get back into this relationship "take care not to make me enter" because he's getting exhausted, feeling trapped, annoyed to the point where he might just kill them both (most likely an expression than actually wanting to kill) "cause if we do we both may disappear" "I'm slipping back into the gap again I'm alive when you're touching me Alive when you're shoving me down, hey But I'd trade it all for just a little peace of mind" He's about to give in and get back with her because the sex was good, but not good enough to the point where he would rather just leave and live in peace. He's realizing that not even the sex is enough to keep him to stay. "You're pushing and shoving and scrambling Keep my feet flat on the ground I am somewhere I don't wanna be Push me somewhere I don't wanna be Put me somewhere I don't wanna be Seeing someplace I don't wanna see Never wanna see that place again" Aren't you all getting a bit annoyed and frustrated reading this? Imagine how he feels. He's trying to tell her that he's done. He doesn't want to be with her. He isn't happy with her, living with her, it's done. He's pretty much done at this point and he's officially accepted it to the point where he's putting his foot down. He's not going to let her manipulate him, guilt-trip him, or persuade him to get back together. "Saw that gap again today While you were begging me to stay Managed to push myself away And you, as well, my dear" He realized there's only a dark future ahead if he moves forward in the relationship. It's over. He's done. "If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay You minimize my movement anyway I must persuade you another way Pushing and shovin' Pushing and shoving, push at me! There's no love in fear Staring down the hole again Hands are on my back again Surviving is my only friend Terrified of what may come Remember I will always love you As I claw your fucking throat away It will end no other way" He has to persuade her to let go, to stop trying, strive to get out of that unhealthy relationship. There's no love in fear as in they can't be afraid to let each other go because it is scary to be alone, scary to know what's to happen next after you lose someone. He does love her, but it's just not working out, and since she doesn't, since she won't accept it and won't let him go, he has no choice but to stop being a pushover and make the tough call to leave her, and leaving her is such a hard thing to do (esp. for a pushover) that it felt like he was clawing her throat away, actually having to hurt her so he could get out of that situation, even though he tried to do it in nicer other ways, she left him with no choice. |
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| Chevelle – The Meddler Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This is definitely about someone who meddles in others' personal life and gets easily defensive while offending other people as well. Meddler means to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly. Easily defensive can be proven with the verse "You're too much like a wall" which means this person is not open to any other thoughts, opinions, ideas, or anyone not like them. "If you're gonna light those fires, we're all up in arms again" means this person is defensive or strongly opinionated to the point where it's making everyone else want to defend their ways of life or their own beliefs. For example, a Jehovah Witness who doesn't take on any ideas you have to say to them, but lectures you on the way it should be because of their beliefs. "Never, never Lean on you Clever, clever One on two You're mine Finite..." This person cannot be depended on "Never lean on you", this person is not fair (most likely in conversation rather than physically) "Clever, one on two", and this person is only a friend or more when it is convenient for them "You're mine, finite" Midnight answers, stray arrows, nighttime confidence all sounds like this occurs at a party or night club where there are a lot of people around and a lot of alcohol, so this person, this Meddler, sarcastically isn't very fun "it's no fun to be behaving" The end repeatedly states "I don't belong" because this place, this person, thinks his way is the right way and makes the experience no fun for anyone who doesn't give way to how he/she feels it should be. No one wants to be around The Meddler. I wouldn't belong there, either.I wouldn't want to be around someone who is verbally berating me "tear us all to bits" yet sees no fault on their part "Too much like a wall", to the point where I don't feel comfortable being around "Don't belong here" |
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