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Kae Tempest
More Pressure

SINGLE

More Pressure

Release date: 10th January 2022

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About This Track

"More Pressure" is a single by Kae Tempest, released 10th January 2022. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about Kae Tempest.

About the Artist

Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest

Lyrics

More Pressure

More Pressure
More Release
More Relief
More Belief
More Distance
More Reach

The truth is
I don't know
It's so deep

I know nothing
I used to think
Things were so clear
I was so near to nowhere
I could feel everything in me
Pushing for certains
But certains are flimsy
Rock-solid ground beneath me now tells me there's no ground at all
More Pressure
More Release
Your eyes, your cheeks
Your features crease

More desire
Less deceit
Less complex
More complete
Less Push
More Flow
Please –
Let Me Let Go

Get it all out of you
Let it surprise you
I was in a party, face mostly eyeballs
Chin deep in a bag of white lies
Saying I'm sick and tired of my own advice
I see it now
So perfect
But so hard to put into practice
One step forwards, two steps backwards
One soul's epiphany's
Another soul's madness
I saw the truth in the curls of the vanishing girl
Hands like cobwebs dangling
Eyes like deep sea dives
She said stop worrying man
Stop panicking

Calmer
Clearer
Closer
Nearer

More grounded
More rooted
Less convoluted

More stillness
More movement
More existence
Less improvement

More decisions
Less solutions
Less inhibition
Less confusion

More intuition
More connection
More nature
More protection

More abundance
More reflection
Less instruction
More comprehension

More pressure
More release
More relief
More belief
More distance
More reach
The truth is
I don't know
It's so deep

More pressure
More release
More relief
More belief
Less Push
More Flow
Please –
Let Me Let Go

Let me let go
Blast from the past
What's so special
Ghetto in the universal
Well into the road that you came here for
Look at me, man
I came here past four
Look at the pressure, look at the souls
Look at the freedom, look at the clones
Look at my scars, look at my bones
Look at my folks
More relief, more push
More me, more you
Less news
Understand how to uh
And you taught me how to uh
So I came to get true
Travellin' mind, revellin'
Let you try and rattle them
What's true to you
What's real?
We still stealing wallets from cars
Sitting on top of your car
We getting lost in the bar
Let 'em know

More Pressure
More Release
More Relief
More Belief
More Distance
More Reach
The truth is I don't know, it's so deep

More Pressure
More Release
More Relief
More Belief

Less Push
More Flow
Please -
Let Me Let Go

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Track details

More Pressure

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Release year

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Kae Tempest — These Are the Days (from The Line Is A Curve) [4:02]

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Kae Tempest — More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract) (from The Line Is A Curve) [3:14]

Kae Tempest — No Prizes (feat. Lianne La Havas) (from The Line Is A Curve) [4:17]

Kae Tempest — Move (from The Line Is A Curve) [2:24]

Kae Tempest — Nothing to Prove (from The Line Is A Curve) [3:27]

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Kae Tempest — Unholy Elixir

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Kae Tempest — All Humans Too Late (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [3:06]

Kae Tempest — Holy Elixir (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [4:57]

Kae Tempest — Hold Your Own (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [4:07]

Kae Tempest — Lessons (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [4:05]

Kae Tempest — People's Faces (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [5:17]

Kae Tempest — I Trap You (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [3:33]

Kae Tempest — Brown Eyed Man (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [3:05]

Kae Tempest — Thirsty (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [3:26]

Kae Tempest — Firesmoke (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [3:35]

Kae Tempest — Keep Moving Don't Move (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [5:49]

Kae Tempest — Three Sided Coin (from The Book Of Traps And Lessons) [4:02]

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Kae Tempest — Brews (from Let Them Eat Chaos) [0:48]

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