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Originally Posted by mrskeenan
maynard really has no reason to sing about abuse
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I don't really understand, is this ironic?
I like the sound of the OP, one could say that the object of Crawl Away, is the subject of Pushit.
These two lines match up:
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Originally Posted by Crawl Away
You crawled away from me.
Slipped away from me.
I tried to keep ahold,
but there was nothing I could say.
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Originally Posted by Pushit
As you were begging me to stay. Managed to push myself away,
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This describes the desire for seperation by one party and the desire from the other to prevent this. More lyrics show reasons for wanting seperation:
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Originally Posted by Crawl Away
But what you want and what you need
doesn't mean fuck to me.
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Originally Posted by Pushit
Put me somewhere I don't wanna be.
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see.
Never wanna see that place again.
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Not a direct match but evidence of one person doing to the other what they don't want to be done to them.
The next lyrics actually can be directly connected:
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Originally Posted by Crawl Away
Because I can see your back is turning.
If I could I'd stick the knife in.
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Originally Posted by Pushit
Hands upon my back again
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I'm think I'm making too much of a connection between the word back appearing in both songs. When the Crawl Away lyrics are sung, I think it's connected with the times when the abused is leaving the abuser. It sounds to me like the back of the victim is being turned on the abuser so they feel they are losing their victim and must stick the knife in to keep them or at least spite them for leaving. In Pushit the same situation may be being described, but the subject is talking about how mentally he is back in the relationship rather than walking away as the subject of Crawl Away suggests:
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Originally Posted by Pushit
Staring down the hole again
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The victim is caught still in this relationship because he's heading mentally down this hole where he gets stuck.
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Originally Posted by Pushit
Terrified of what may come
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Next is a big matchup:
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Originally Posted by Crawl Away
This is love.
This is my love for you
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Originally Posted by Pushit
You still love me and you pushit on me
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The abuser is describing his actions as his love, and the victim confirms this by describing the same thing. I'm assuming in Crawl Away, "this" refers to whatever is being "pushed" on the victim. Although it does sound like the victim is making a distinction between the love and the abuse, like they are saying, "You love me but yet you do this". Further evidnce shows that in fact the victim is saying that this is not love:
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Originally Posted by Pushit
There's no love in fear
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It's at this pont that I realise that there are far more descriptions of events in Pushit than Crawl Away. Pushit also talks about the victim enjoying it. But we don't need to look too far from Crawl Away to find the abuser's perspective of this, Prison Sex. I might go so far to say that Pushit is in fact telling the story of Prison Sex, but instead of just talking about what physical things are happening, the victim is telling the abuser why the relationship is as it is. Pushit sounds like two people caught in the cycle of abuse:
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Originally Posted by Pushit
Slipping back into the gap again.
I'm alive when you're touching me,
Alive when you're shoving me down.
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