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Lover lover why do you push
Why do you push, why do you push
Baby baby, did you forget about me
I've been standing at the back of your life
Back row center just above the ice
Please don't ask me how I've been getting off
No please don't ask me how I've been getting off
Break my body, with the back of your hand
Doesn't make sense from where I stand
Baby, baby why you want to mess it up
Sooner or later I'll find my place
Find my body better fix my face
Please don't ask me
How I've been getting off
No please don't ask me
How I've been getting off
It's a fine line between pleasure and pain
You've done it once you can do it again
Whatever you've done don't' try to explain
It's a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain
It's all the same
It's all the same
It's all the same
Why do you push, why do you push
Baby baby, did you forget about me
I've been standing at the back of your life
Back row center just above the ice
Please don't ask me how I've been getting off
No please don't ask me how I've been getting off
Break my body, with the back of your hand
Doesn't make sense from where I stand
Baby, baby why you want to mess it up
Sooner or later I'll find my place
Find my body better fix my face
Please don't ask me
How I've been getting off
No please don't ask me
How I've been getting off
It's a fine line between pleasure and pain
You've done it once you can do it again
Whatever you've done don't' try to explain
It's a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain
It's all the same
It's all the same
It's all the same
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i think the lover is interrogating the singer about possible other lovers. this jealous lover might be a current lover who has lately been absent emotionally and/or physically.
or he might be a past lover who used to interrogate and then bash her, and this conversation is reminding her of the bad old times.
he tries to justify his past actions, but she doesn't want to hear it.
there is some hint that their relationship was ambivalent in that possibly his jealousy and teh beatings were to an extent understood between them to signify his 'love' and that this was mixed up with eroticism, so that in some way they were both complicit in carrying on a pattern that was destructive.
it's really hard to know for sure what it's about. but the whole "pleasure and pain" imagery is what really speaks to me upon first listen. i don't get it being about masturbation...maybe abuse. it's about loving someone who causes you pain, i think. such sadness in your lover forgetting about you. beautiful song.
"brake my body with the back of you hand" - physical abuse (how can this line mean masturbation?)
"doesn't make sense from where i stand" - why are you hitting me?
"you wanna mess it up" - this is braking us apart
"you've done it once you can do it again"/ its all the same one twice no matter what the reason you shouldn't do it
"pleasure and pain" - love some one and they cause you pain...