Pushit (live/alternate version)
Maynard's monologue:
We've been trying something a little different this tour.
We've been looking at one of our songs
From a different angle, under a different light,
So we can hopefully kind of see it almost for the first time.
We'd like try that for you tonight, is that okay?
We're gonna need your help though. We're gonna need your help
and your permission,
So we need you to find a comfortable space,
That is not only comfortable,
But vulnerable.
I want you to shut your eyes and go there,
And we'll meet you on the other side...
I saw the gap again today...while you were begging me to stay.
Managed to push myself away...and you as well my dear.
Pushed you away my dear...
I will choke until I swallow...choke this infant here before me.
What is this but my reflection? Who am I to judge and strike you down?
But you're pushing and shoving me.
You still love me and you pushit on me.
Rest your trigger on my finger, bang my head upon the fault line.
You better take care not to make me enter, cuz if I do we both may disappear.
But you're pushing me, shoving me. Pushing and shoving me. Pushit on me.
I'm slipping back into the gap again.
I feel alive when you touch me...I feel alive when you hold me down.
Slipping back into...slipping back into...
Put me somewhere I don't wanna be.
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see.
Never wanna see that place again.
Saw the gap again today as you were begging me to stay.
Managed to push myself away...and you as well my dear.
If, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay,
you minimize my movement anyway,
I must persuade you another way.
There's no love in fear.
Staring down the hole again. Hands upon 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.