i love this song
it amazes me and as you can see it my name on here and some other sites :)

I first thought this song was about suicide and people giving up....

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?

First of all...to Thinkitbeit..If you weren't too damn lazy to find out when this song was released you would know there was no possible way this was about his Aids.

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.

i think this song is about being gay and all that cause when it says Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!" i that means leting them know that they are gay. but yeah that is wat i think it is about.

Two uber=cool vocalists on this one. Gotta love it!

I think the song is about the struggle and heartache Mercury endured because of his sexuality and what he and other gay people endure in a world that doesn't always accept them:

"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.

I was always under the impression that this song was about Gays coming out of the closet. Freddy Mercury (Gay) and David Bowie (Bisexual). And when they say "Watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!". then they are referring to coming out of the closet but they can't because of the pressures of society. And what they are saying is that you don't need to be afraid, just come out because there's no pressure.

The song actually explain different kind of pressure.
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.

This is a great song. One of my favorites.