Lyrics for Under Pressure as interpreted by Novartza

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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WorldFallsUp
04-06-2005

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the used and mcr did cover this song and they've been ending their taste of chaos tour with it. i think its awesome coz i love queen and letting young'ns hear queen at any show is great. and i think they do a good job with it. i think its a great way to end the show but thats just me

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jek21
04-07-2005

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This song is about marijuana.

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Child Of Music
04-18-2005

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To me, this is a cynic (Bowie's vocal) arguing with a romantic (Mercury's vocal). They both realise that the world is in jepardy, but the cynic is dismissing the romantic's notion of salvation and love. In the end, the cynic has nothing new to say, only to point out the hopelessness of life, while the romantic tries to find meaning and happiness.

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dasquien!
05-01-2005

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i love this song but the funny thing is that ive never really thought about what it meant because im usually too busy singing it in my car

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prilla1206
05-07-2005

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Child Of Music may be on to something. I don't believe the pressure is caused by love but the difficulty to REMAIN loving under pressure. When under pressure, the "cynics" give up, while the "romantic" preaches that only love for others and ourselves will get us through this life in which our good friends are screaming, "Let me out!" What a beautiful song. After listening to it for 20 years it became even more beautiful than it ever was. I love this site!

Don't be so mad at Vanilla Ice...just appreciate the original that you love. Definitely stop with any anger towards those who cover it. They just love it as much as you do.

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ashokvsharma
06-27-2005

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cool song ... queen are so good

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ophelia219
07-27-2005

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This song is so great. It obviously can be interpreted may ways, but Child Of Music and prilla1206 really enlightened me. I like the idea of the one trying to convince the other about the whole concept of love.

I originally thought that this song was about the narrator's reluctance to come out of the closet due to society's blatant distaste for homosexuality...'burns a building down..splits a family in two....watching some good friends screaming let me out'.

The line that says that love is such an old fashion word seems to once again suggest that many have such a narrow view of what it means to love...like there's some kind of engraved blueprint that dictates exactly who we should love, how we should love, when we should love, where we should....well you get the point. Anyway it says it all in these two lines:
'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.'

Whatever the meaning may be, this song is quite thought provoking, cleverly constructed, and very beautiful.

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washingtonative91
08-12-2005

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Da*n Vanilla Ice and him stealing the beat from this work of art! Under Pressure is my second favorite Queen song (next to Bohemian Rhapsody, of course). The music gods will surly look down upon Mr. Ice with great vengence!

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xdarkentries
09-05-2005

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This song is one of my favorites, any genre. Taking Bowie (whom I love) and mixing him in with Queen produced a fantastic song. HOWEVER, the MCR/Used duet grates on my nerves. The whiny "emo" voice or whatever they call themselves ruins the song!

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stejsmith
09-28-2005

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I'd never thought of it in the way ChildofMusic and prilla1206 say, but that makes sense, thinking about the lyrics and the differences between Mercury and Bowie's parts.

I'd heard somewhere that the song was originally to be called "People on the Streets", and that line features heavily in the song. So, I wonder if this is about our attitudes to the "undesirables" in society - the people on streets etc., that our world throws out. The conflict between Bowie and Mercury then becomes about how we treat this people: Freddie sings "can't we give love one more chance", we need to love these people? But Bowie's words point out what that means: love as a word is easy to say, but it has vast implications, i.e. "love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night and... change our way of caring about ourselves". There's almost a challenge in these words: are we up to it?

Agree that this is a great song and Vanilla Ice's rip-off is horrendous.

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stoolhardy
12-09-2005

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I only have one thing to say about this song:

Dah dah dah, dah-dah-dah, dum! Dah dah dah, dah-dah-dah, dum!

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stoolhardy
12-09-2005

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Actually I have another thing to say too:

People on streets!
deeda dee da day!
People on streeets!
Deeda da, dee-da, dee-da, dee-da, dee-da

Favorite part of the song! :-)

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Dangerdave
12-22-2005

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I would like to hear the deftones cover this song.

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ohxcriminal
12-22-2005

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though i adore the deftones, i cant quite see why youd say theyd do it well.

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anghockey
12-29-2005

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Got me through my junior year of high school. Ever since then, I've blasted it and danced around my room before and after finals.

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anghockey
12-29-2005

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Got me through my junior year of high school. Ever since then, I've blasted it and danced around my room before and after finals.

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sharkman
01-28-2006

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Vanilla Ice SUCKS!!! you can clearly tell that that song is a rip off of this one. I hate vanilla ice and he knows he ripped it off. For example: if I were to take the begining part of "The Unforgivin and add it to a song I made up would that be legal Hell NO!!! Queen is one of the greatest groups that was.

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esthero
02-12-2006

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No matter what the meaning of this song is, the passion with which the line "why can't we give love, give love, give love..." is sung is so beautiful. i love Queen.

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doctorlove08
02-26-2006

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It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!"
-Best Part of Song

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ShaneReid
05-20-2006

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Don't think of Vanilla as "stealing" it. Think of it as a dedicated to Queen.

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undercoverbugger
05-31-2006

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...Dedicated CRAP!!! It's still a rip off, if you're gonna dedicate something to Queen, make it worthwhile, not just a friggin cheesy rip off of one of their songs. Cover it, maybe... even that's pushing it, but at least that way you're not butchering the whole thing, because the lyrics would still be good. The MCR and Used version wasn't too bad, but it just wasn't Queen.

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sharkman
06-09-2006

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Thankyou undercoverbugger. Someone who finally agrees with me. If he was "dedicating" it to Queen as you put it ShaneReid, it would be the same lyrics but only in a rap form. It bugs me when Under Pressure comes on the radio and people say "Yeah,Ice Ice Baby" and its not.I can't stand thats song. I stand by my word that V Ice Sucks Dick!!!

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R25
06-30-2006

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Vanilla Ice had to pay to both Queen and David Bowie
because he had never asked permission to sample the bassline.
and buy the way i;m getting so sick of people out there thinking a Queen songs is about drugs,and or gay or bisexual people all the time
Queen songs are about people,and things that happen troughout life.

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Matheson
07-25-2006

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Vanilla Ice is a motherfucking bitch!

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heylosr
08-03-2006

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oh i wish i could count all the times we have group sing alongs to this song during carrides. c'mon who has NOT sang to the random words that i do not even know how to spell?! haha

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