For me this song, as with many tool songs is about breaking patterns of negative, and often abusive behaviour - whether it be towards the self, another person, or on a social level. It says that the capacity to damage is often unintentional but inevitable if you dont actively overcome the negative aspects of yourself, whatever the cause of those traits is.
Thus pushit may be interpreted as a relationship whereby two personalities bring the worst out of each other even though they are apparently inseperable, and dependent on one another. The only way to end the pattern is for both to die and be reborn.
@th1980 I agree! So much of Aenima was about revolving and purging oneself of negative thoughts & emotions: Aenima = anima + enema. Anima, like “animate”, the energy which gives a body life, and we all know what an enema is. So it’s about giving oneself a metaphysical enema to clean the shit out of the thing that animates your body. Deep shit. In both senses ;). One of my favorite Tool songs.
@th1980 I agree! So much of Aenima was about revolving and purging oneself of negative thoughts & emotions: Aenima = anima + enema. Anima, like “animate”, the energy which gives a body life, and we all know what an enema is. So it’s about giving oneself a metaphysical enema to clean the shit out of the thing that animates your body. Deep shit. In both senses ;). One of my favorite Tool songs.
For me this song, as with many tool songs is about breaking patterns of negative, and often abusive behaviour - whether it be towards the self, another person, or on a social level. It says that the capacity to damage is often unintentional but inevitable if you dont actively overcome the negative aspects of yourself, whatever the cause of those traits is.
Thus pushit may be interpreted as a relationship whereby two personalities bring the worst out of each other even though they are apparently inseperable, and dependent on one another. The only way to end the pattern is for both to die and be reborn.
I just wrote my interpretation and posted it a couple of minutes ago, and I think yours is very similar to mine. Good job, sir. =P
I just wrote my interpretation and posted it a couple of minutes ago, and I think yours is very similar to mine. Good job, sir. =P
this sums up the meaning of APC's song "Orestes" too...
this sums up the meaning of APC's song "Orestes" too...
@th1980 I agree! So much of Aenima was about revolving and purging oneself of negative thoughts & emotions: Aenima = anima + enema. Anima, like “animate”, the energy which gives a body life, and we all know what an enema is. So it’s about giving oneself a metaphysical enema to clean the shit out of the thing that animates your body. Deep shit. In both senses ;). One of my favorite Tool songs.
@th1980 I agree! So much of Aenima was about revolving and purging oneself of negative thoughts & emotions: Aenima = anima + enema. Anima, like “animate”, the energy which gives a body life, and we all know what an enema is. So it’s about giving oneself a metaphysical enema to clean the shit out of the thing that animates your body. Deep shit. In both senses ;). One of my favorite Tool songs.