Tool: Pushit Meaning

Pushit Lyrics

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
..
Know that I will choke until I swallow,
Choke this infant here before me.
What is this but my reflection?
Who am I...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 1st 2006 !⃝

   In this song I believe Maynard is definately talking about how love is a burden especially when it takes a turn for the worse. I listened to this song recently actually I listen to this song mostly every day because even though my ex-girlfriend still loves me she is dating my best friend. So therefore I detached myself. So Pushit is about how someone still loves him but he can't be with that person because of what she's done to him in the past. :) just what I belive.
2. Mitch_of_course

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   Mar 12th 2006 !⃝

   This is my first interpretation on the site and this is solely my opinion.
   ok,
   
   "Choke this infant here before me. What is this but my reflection? Who am I to judge and strike you down?"
   The infant (I think) is us, everyone else but him that expects the best from him because that's all we've known to recieve from him. "His Reflection" Is seeing a little bit of himself in all of us. Since he does see Himself in all of us he won't judge or shun us away because (deep down believe it or not) he cares!
   
   "But you're pushing and shoving me... You still love me and you pushit on me..."
   Like I said before He feels pressured but He's not going to subside to the pressure simply because he doesn't have to.
   
   "Rest your trigger on my finger, bang my head upon the fault line. (You better) Take care not to make me enter.
   'cause if I do we both may disappear."
   (I think) He's telling us that he knows we push him and if you push me hard enough ("Take care not to make me enter") I'm going to fucking stop trying for you, then what will become of you? Who you gonna feed off of next?
   
   "Slipping back into the gap again. I'm alive when you're touching me/alive when you're shoving me down. But i'd trade it all - for just a little peace of mind!!!"
   He is kinda saying "you keep pressuring me... can't you realize it won't have an effect? Cant I just get a break?"
   
   "You're pushin', shovin', scramblin'... Keep my feet down on the ground..."
   Here Maynard says "You've pushed long enough and I'm sick of this shit."
   
   "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. Saw that gap again today while you were begging me to stay. Managed to push myself away, and you, as well, my dear. If, when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay,
   you minimize my movement anyway. I must persuade you another way."
   In other words, Maynard says " you went too far and now you are going to regret it."
   
   "There's no love in fear. Staring down the hole again.
   Hands around my back again. Survival is my only friend.
   Terrified of what may come. Remember I will always love you, as I tear your fucking throat away. It will end no other way. It will end no other way."
   well this verse seems to act as a father-to-son conversation where the father says "I love you son even though I'm pissed as hell and this is just one of those life lessons that sooner or later you would have been exposed to. NOW YOU WONT FUCKING DO THAT AGAIN WILL YOU?!"
   
   thats it. My interpretation of the song. Feel free to tell me what your thoughts are about it.

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