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Google if you've never read as it will help anyone understand the concepts of Magick, Crowley, and is a good starting guide into the paths of shamanic vision and how mythology and archetypes define people in a much truer since than we're taught in Western schooling. *Yes, I'm referring to the one beautifully explained in Promethea. In that since, it's a surrender to the notion that these relationships are the foundation of what makes us human and alive. Whether this play is acted out with a lover, an inward spiritual trip where one is talking to the multiplaned self or even just a relationship with a drug or more specifically, ANYTHING that affects you by becoming apart of who you are.
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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. 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). I've noticed a trend in Maynard to be able to see things from an immateria* plane ofĮxistence. He holds THE GRUDGE and wheres it like a crown. Maynard disagrees with this at the time this song was written. Jesus was abused in some of the most wicked ways and yet, he forgave all those who maimed him. It's an image that tells him to love those who have wronged him (forgive them), an image that dictates the way he SHOULD (whether the right way or the wrong way) live his life but that he can't face up to because it is just to painful. The infant haunts him.it's an image that stays with him always, partly from what was preached to him.
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He associates a harmless, loving, defenseless infant with himself as a child, but he still hates himself for letting that abuse happen.he wants to get away from himself and that time in his life. The ideas and values preached to a young Maynard really confused him because of the abusive relationship his stepfather (the one who was preaching) had with him. The infant mentioned in the song is in part himself in his youth and representative of the infant Jesus Christ. Pushit simply has to do with Maynard's internal struggle with his past and that of religion (Christian Baptist in particular). General CommentI can't believe everyone is obsessed with sex so 's true, some (very few, in fact, of maynard's TOOL songs have to do with sex.many more of his apc have to do with sex) TOOL songs have to do with sex as a metaphor or as an abuse (prison sex), etc., but most of Maynard's songs have intellectual meaning, philisophical meanings, ideological meanings.as does pushit. If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay You're pushing and shoving and scrambling You'd better take care not to make me enterīut I'd trade it all for just a little peace of mind You still love me but you didn't need to shit on me You know that I will choke until I swallow