Pushit Lyrics

Lyric discussion by themeddler 

Cover art for Pushit lyrics by Tool

I love the multiple ways you can interpret this song. You can see it, shallowly, about sex, wade into the waters and say it's about a complicated relationship between two lovers, or, as I prefer, you can dive deeply and say it's about the relationship between two characters within one body. These characters are fighting for control. Not necessarily two personalities as if he is a schitzo, but more so that you can't decide who you are or want to be and you change for other people and distort who you are for them, and then finally deciding to take control in the end, even if sometimes you loved your "alternate person" that you were pretending to be.

I've noticed a trend in Maynard to be able to see things from an immateria* plane of existence. I really want to go with the notion that all of you are right in the different levels of understanding this song, everything from a relationship with a lover to a relationship with self or even, as mentioned above, a relationship with the all (DMT - experience).

What I get from it is that this song is a direct relation with the notion of "self" and the relationship (regardless of what with) that affects the self. Whether this play is acted...