Push me, Pull me about birth?

UsmanI
UsmanI Posts: 72
edited January 2008 in Words and Music...Communication
I know it may sound stupid at first, but if you look at the lines "Push me, pull me, just pull me out!", i swear it's about birth. I don't know, that's just what makes sense to me.
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  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    I had a false belief, I thought I came here to stay...


    Could be, could be.
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • willtupper
    willtupper Posts: 70
    Push Me, Pull Me is about Pearl Jam's once drummer position.

    "False belief, thought I came here to stay..." look at it from their various former drummer's view.

    "All just visiting, all just BREAKING like waves..." this is a reference to the drum break in certain songs.

    "The oceans made me..." The rhythm of the waves, like DRUMS.

    "But who came up with love?" Drummers ask dumb questions like this. Often when stoned, but usually just because they're drummers.

    "Push me, pull me..." a reference to drummers lugging their own equipment.

    "Or pull me out..." this actually might be about sex. A drummer talking about his, um... "stick."

    Anyways, that's what the song is about. Okay? Have a nice day! :)
  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    I'm not buying it.
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • yielder
    yielder Posts: 160
    that song rocks !!!!!!!!!!!!
    Greets Dave
    Antwerp -Belgium- Europe
  • Riot_Rain
    Riot_Rain Posts: 348
    UsmanI wrote:
    I know it may sound stupid at first, but if you look at the lines "Push me, pull me, just pull me out!", i swear it's about birth. I don't know, that's just what makes sense to me.

    It does mention death as well...

    So if there were no angels, would there be no sin?
    You better stop me before I begin
    But let me say...if I behave...can you arrange
    a spacious hole in the ground
    Somewhere nice, make it nice
    Where the land meets high tide

    I think it's about life, more than birth, but yeah.
    Like a cloud dropping rain
    I'm discarding all thought
    I'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground
    I'm like an opening band for the sun
  • upina2001
    upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    I thought it was a surfing song; talking about the undercurrent & the tide;

    push me, pull me.

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  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    I think it's a song about a bowel movement.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • UsmanI
    UsmanI Posts: 72
    Yeah i started thinking it could be about death as well. Push me, Pull me, just pull me outta this life.
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    I have no clue what it means, but I love reciting it.

    The oceans made me but who came up with love,
    Push Me, Pull Me, or Pull Me Out...
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    willtupper wrote:
    Push Me, Pull Me is about Pearl Jam's once drummer position.

    "False belief, thought I came here to stay..." look at it from their various former drummer's view.

    "All just visiting, all just BREAKING like waves..." this is a reference to the drum break in certain songs.

    "The oceans made me..." The rhythm of the waves, like DRUMS.

    "But who came up with love?" Drummers ask dumb questions like this. Often when stoned, but usually just because they're drummers.

    "Push me, pull me..." a reference to drummers lugging their own equipment.

    "Or pull me out..." this actually might be about sex. A drummer talking about his, um... "stick."

    Anyways, that's what the song is about. Okay? Have a nice day! :)
    Awesome!
    :p
    I always thought it was Ed's belief that we all came from the sea or the earth and that is where we will end up.
    His connection to the earth and it's natural forces.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    'I had a false belief, I thought I came hear to stay...we're all just visiting'
    WTF is difficult to understand about that?..The realisation of your own mortality, coming of age, it's simple...Ed was having a midlife crisis.:)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    i thought it was about shopping trolleys with a fucked wheel
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    dunkman wrote:
    i thought it was about shopping trolleys with a fucked wheel

    Either that or bumming :D
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    jamie uk wrote:
    Either that or bumming :D


    :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    It's basically about the smallness of man in the context of time and the universe. We're here one day, gone the next. Like an opening band for the sun.

    Nature is bigger than us.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    dunkman wrote:
    :D
    haha Frick and Frack...

    Midlife crisis in his early 30's??? I hope not. :eek:
    :p
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • UsmanI
    UsmanI Posts: 72
    slightofjeff wrote:
    It's basically about the smallness of man in the context of time and the universe. We're here one day, gone the next. Like an opening band for the sun.

    Nature is bigger than us.

    I like this explanation the best so far
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Ones own mortality, that's all it is. Most posts have said the same.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • pearljamgirl07
    pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    yielder wrote:
    that song rocks !!!!!!!!!!!!
    I'm agree!!!
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    UsmanI wrote:
    I like this explanation the best so far

    It fits in the context of the Yield album anyway.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do

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