This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
(Hit it)
Ooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Ooh, baby, baby
Ba-baby, baby (get up on this)
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah, push it (hey, get up on this)
Ah, push it
(Get up on this)
Ow baby
Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt and Pep-, Salt and Pep-, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt
Salt and Pepa's here
Now, now, now, wait a minute, y'all
This dance ain't for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers
Get on out there and dance
Dance, I said!
Salt and Pepa's here, and we're in effect
Want you to push it, babe
Coolin' by day then at night working up a sweat
Come on girls, let's go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show
Now push it
Ah, push it
Push it good
Ah, push it
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Push it good
Ah, push it
P-push it real good
Hey
Ow
Push it good
Ooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Ooh, baby, baby
Ba-baby, baby
Push it good
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop
Yeah, you come here, gimme a kiss
Better make it fast or else I'm gonna get pissed
Can't you hear the music's pumpin' hard like I wish you would?
Now push it
Push it good
Push it real good
Push it good
P-push it real good
Ah, push it
Get up on this (uh)
Get up on this (uh, uh, uh)
Get up on this (hey)
Get up on this (hit it)
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so
I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so
I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah
Ah, push it
Push-push-push it, push it
Push it, Push-push-push it, push it
Push it, push it
Push it, push it, push it
Push it, push it
Push it, push it, push it
Ah, push it
(Hit it)
Ooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Ooh, baby, baby
Ba-baby, baby (get up on this)
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah, push it (hey, get up on this)
Ah, push it
(Get up on this)
Ow baby
Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt and Pep-, Salt and Pep-, Salt and Pepa's here
Salt, Salt, Salt
Salt and Pepa's here
Now, now, now, wait a minute, y'all
This dance ain't for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers
Get on out there and dance
Dance, I said!
Salt and Pepa's here, and we're in effect
Want you to push it, babe
Coolin' by day then at night working up a sweat
Come on girls, let's go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show
Now push it
Ah, push it
Push it good
Ah, push it
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Push it good
Ah, push it
P-push it real good
Hey
Ow
Push it good
Ooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Ooh, baby, baby
Ba-baby, baby
Push it good
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop
Yeah, you come here, gimme a kiss
Better make it fast or else I'm gonna get pissed
Can't you hear the music's pumpin' hard like I wish you would?
Now push it
Push it good
Push it real good
Push it good
P-push it real good
Ah, push it
Get up on this (uh)
Get up on this (uh, uh, uh)
Get up on this (hey)
Get up on this (hit it)
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so
I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so
I don't know what I'm doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah
Ah, push it
Push-push-push it, push it
Push it, Push-push-push it, push it
Push it, push it
Push it, push it, push it
Push it, push it
Push it, push it, push it
Lyrics submitted by GunsNRosesGirl
Push It Lyrics as written by Raymond Douglas Davies Herby Azor
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I think the line "push it real good" is really a metaphor for industrialization, and the mind set of a nation on the brink of a capitalist future.
The counterpoint rhythm in the song clearly represents the declining health of a nation increasingly reliant on high fructose corn syrup.
clearly an educated man, trying valiantly to enlighten us all. <br /> <br /> plus he does it for the lulz
hahahahahaha... ya ur absolutely correct
"Lulz." Nope, he's just being a putz :D
Hahahaha I love when Glee covers this!
It's about taking a dump.
Penis, meet Vagina........
I think this song is about good version control practices. You have to push and push often and real good.
After speaking personally with Salt N Pepa, I can confirm your explanation to be the true meaning of this song. They have been in the software business for quite some time now.
hedonistic primal sex.
big cocks being put in rude places in an aggressive manner.
Its hard not to dance when this song comes on
its shopping carts haha
Salt-n-pepa actually wrote this song while taking a really relieving dump following being constipated for 2 days, 12 hours, and 37 minutes.