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Under Pressure Lyrics
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for Under pressure - that burns a building down, splits a family in two Puts people on streets That's OK It's the terror of knowing what this world is about Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!" Pray tomorrow - gets me higher Pressure on people - people on streets Chippin around - kick my brains around the floor These are the days it never rains but it pours People on streets (twice) It's the terror of knowing what this world is about Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!" Pray tomorrow - gets me higher Pressure on people - people on streets Turned away from it all like a blind man Sat on a fence but it don't work Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn Why-why-why Love Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking Can't we give ourselves one more chance Why can't we give love that one more chance Why can't we give love..... Cause love's such an old fashioned word And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves This is our last dance, this is our last dance This is ourselves Under pressure Under pressure Pressure
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08-26-2009
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08-17-2009
The first verse being about *your* kind of pressure, might it be work life, school life, family life.
That's OK so far. But there is also the pressure of knowing what happens to other people, whom you can't help.
Some of the days are just light gray, some are dark gray. That's why it is so easy to ignore the real big problems. Because we are stuck in our own problems. We can try to solve it with love. Brotherly love. If we give love, we can feel we are humans still.
It's our last chance: what else could we give? Only ignorance is easier to give. To turn away from it all like a blind man.
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06-09-2009
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03-12-2009
"Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure - that burns a building down, splits a
family in two
Puts people on streets"
- could be interpreted literally as homosexuality being something "no man ask for" (i.e. can't "choose" to be gay).....and revealing something like that to a family that doesn't understand could cause splitting of families and the individual being disowned and put on the street.
"That's OK
It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!"
- could mean he's referencing the first lyric and indicating that he'd rather go through the heartache and trouble of revealing his true self to those loves and suffer their anger and ignorance, than go through the terror of life like some of his gay friends who suffer in silence.
"Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work"
- he tried to deny his true self by pretending he was something he wasn't, but "it don't work."
"Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love.....
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for the people on the edge"
- here, I think when Mercury is singing about "why can't we give love that one more chance," I think he wants to help his family/friends understand who he is and that he's still the same person, he wants to reconnect to the people he loves - he's saying please love me for who I am
- then David Bowie's lines about "love's such an old fashioned word, etc." his "character" is the voice of Mercury's family/friend/society indicating that they can't accept his homosexuality because it's not their understanding of "proper love." And if they try to give their relationship with Mercury a chance, i.e.: let him back into the fold so-to-speak, they'll be forced or pressured to understand his homosexuality and they're unwilling to give up their fears. I think the latter is meant by the line, "love dares you to care for people on the edge." Maybe "people on the edger" are homosexuals as society sees them.
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01-18-2009
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08-27-2008
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07-30-2008
Secondly...Freddie and David Bowie aren't the only ones who sang on this. It is listed as a Queen and David Bowie song....not a Freddie Mercury and David Bowie Song. Don't forget Roger and Brian's vocal contributions to this song.
aND yES vANIILA iCE SUCKS.
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07-17-2008
but then I just read the last few lyrics
"
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love.....
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for the people on the edge
of the night
And love dares you to change our way of caring about
ourselves
This is our last dance, this is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure "
AMAZING! I have a new found respect for this song...
maybe because I'm at a point in my life, where I'm ready to love a new woman, but scared shitless about it...hahaa.Perhaps it's a sign?
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06-02-2008
it amazes me and as you can see it my name on here and some other sites :)
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05-18-2008
"Cause love's such an old fashioned word"
"And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night"
"And love dares you to change our way of caring about
ourselves"
By the time this was written, the 60s movement had been gone for a while, along with caring for "People on the streets."
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04-12-2008
makes me think hes referring to people wanting to get out of the world , as in suicide and im sure everyone had friends who wanted to commit suicide
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03-03-2008
i love the freddy mercury part ...
Why can't we give love one more chance?
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02-06-2008
This song means that it is hard to change for someone when the pressure of the relationship is on. But you have to keep trying. David bowie said that love is such an old fashioned word he is refering to the younger generations that are falling in love with each other and getting bored quick then not being in love. Because love will make you WANT to fit into each others lives. Not from the pressure of being Under Pressure. If you dont want to change for someone you are not in love. It makes you see the entire world differently. and to top it off...to all you fags are here talking about vanilla ice sampling this work of art.... WHO GIVES A SHIT?
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12-02-2007
I've heard the Used and MCR version and they just don't have the feeling that was put into the original.
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12-02-2007
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11-04-2007
Burns a building down;splits a family in two; puts people on streets..explains itself there.
Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!"
- They don't want to accept how they are, but they have to face it.. Mostly this song is about how 'gay people' are not excepted in a 'normal' society. And what the disadvantages of coming out are.
Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn
its tainted love; no one is accepting it. and im pretty sure the rest is self explanitory. Anywho. Great freakn song. love it. I dont care what it means cause its so freakin fantastic
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09-21-2007
funny how none wants to take credit of the most recognizeable and most controversial part of the song... the bass riff..
according to john deacon, david bowie created it. according to david, it's already there when he arrived... then brian and roger credited it to john. oh well, i guess it's enough for them to know they made one GREAT song, they don't care who gets the credit... and i guess it's true that imitation is the sincerest/greatest form of flattery, that's why Queen did not wish to get involved when Hollywood records sued vanilla ice.
this song rocks!!!
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08-31-2007
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08-21-2007
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08-16-2007
Nothing else to say, just OWNED
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07-18-2007
"And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of night and love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves..."
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07-07-2007
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06-11-2007
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06-09-2007
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06-03-2007
heard this on the radio the other day, and there was this extra thing at the end i liked...it sounded like another song almost...does anyone know about this?
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