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Go go go
Push him away
No no no
Don't let him stay
He gets inside to stare at her
The seeping mouth
The mouth that knows
The secret you
Always you
A smile to hide the fear away
Oh smear this man across the walls
Like strawberries and cream
Its the only way to be
Exactly the same clean room
Exactly the same clean bed
But I've stayed away too long this time
And I've got too big to fit this time
Push him away
No no no
Don't let him stay
He gets inside to stare at her
The seeping mouth
The mouth that knows
The secret you
Always you
A smile to hide the fear away
Oh smear this man across the walls
Like strawberries and cream
Its the only way to be
Exactly the same clean room
Exactly the same clean bed
But I've stayed away too long this time
And I've got too big to fit this time
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make an object, imbalance of power. stupid men who think women want it.
The beauty of this song is its lack of clear meaning...
And how instead its packed with pure passion...
For me...
This song is about growing up... or more accurately ... transforming - metamorphosing even.
Let's examine it closely:
'Push'
(as the butterfly 'pushes' from the chrysalis...)
Go go go, go go go!
(run / fly away)
Push him away
(push 'him' away so as to free yourself if you can't escape)
No no no, no no no!
...
Don't let him stay
(get rid of this guy!)
... He, this guy is the 'old' you, the 'you' built by those who educated and made you 'you' but who also hid the real 'you' ...
He gets inside to stare at her
(this is probably a reference to some form of 'sex' - in how the world is mostly sexually repressed in one way or another
its a very obvious way in which we mostly all are not our true selves)
The seeping mouth
(a mouth from which something trickles / oozes slowly ...)
The mouth that knows
(perhaps this mouth is slowly telling you the truth)
The secret you
(about yourself - your real self - your true self ... your secret self)
Always you
(and the mouth trickles nothing else... it just whispers on about you)
A smile to hide the fear away
(this I think plays on mouth - but this time is yours - smiling despite your inner most thoughts of distraction, discomfort, frustration and feelings of being trapped - feelings of fear with regards to the truth about yourself)
Oh smear this man across the walls
(kill this man)
Like strawberries and cream
(destroy him utterly - smash him to bits)
Its the only way, its the only way, to be
(life is yours for the taking and you're going to have so much fun as your true self!)
(its the only way to be.... yeah)
owww!
Exactly the same clean room
(this refers to your state of living .. the same as ever .. cos you haven't changed - still a child - still 'in your parents house')
Exactly the same clean bed
(its time to take a risk- to leave the shelter of your upbringing and become your true self)
But I've stayed away too long this time
(now you've come home - like after a big trip - a gap year or something - and ... )
And I've got too big to fit this time...
(you've outgrown it - so move on - change your circumstance)
This song is massive and by that I also mean - very important.
it advices you to get away from your situation... and specifically from the you that you have been made into by everything...
your parents, the t.v., the radio, films, books, teachers, friends, family etc. etc.
And stay away for long enough...
So that when you get back you will see how you no longer fit...
BECAUSE you will have destroyed your 'sculpted self' and found the inner / secret you deep inside all the layers.
Now - live your life from here - with truth by your side and FUN in your heart.
Then at the end he acknowledges he changed, as he "got too big" for his old life (while on tour in a rock band maybe....hmmm).
You're in the same clean room/bed when you're hurting them and smearing them on the walls, but your pushing them away has basically thrown them against the wall.
The whole part of the second verse I think fits with letting people in you and knowing you deeply, and then you kinda start pushing them away and the more you do, the more you hurt them.