hey. would’ve should’ve could’ve, Puck x Shelby. Thoughts?
Hmmm yes and no
Yes in the sense that she's taking advantage of him, if she hadn't encouraged him and lead him on then he might have not got caught up in all of it, he was just a teenager and she's his teacher and the adoptive mother of his child and she gets into his head and then just. leaves. And those are all things that are really reflected in the song.
But on the other hand, this isn't the first time he's gone through something like this. I think this is the worst case of it, because she has so much power over him and he really thinks he has a chance of a relationship and a life with her and she lets him think that, but it's not even close to the first time a grown woman in a position of power has taken advantage of him. He thinks he's hot shit for sleeping with all the women whose poos he cleans but they are employing him and they are adults and he is a teenager. I think it makes perfect sense that he thinks this thing with Shelby is appropriate and good. And obviously it's her fault for taking advantage of that, he's vulnerable and needed her to be the adult in this situation, but because of all this history I think the song doesn't quite fit.
"If you never touched me, I would've gone along with the righteous"
"If I'd only played it safe"
"God rest my soul, I miss who I used to be"
These lyrics don't really fit in my opinion, because he was already kinda fucked up from so much shit before Shelby, it was too late for "playing it safe," maybe he misses who he used to be but it wasn't before Shelby it was before everything.
So I guess I think it does fit Puck, and it fits Puck and Shelby, but it's not just Puck and Shelby. It's him and Shelby and the who knows how many other women have taken advantaged of a kid who really just needed someone to look out for him.
