Under Pressure

[Verse 1: Jamie Stewart and Michael Gira / Both]

Pressure

Pushing down on me

Pushing down on you

No man ask for

Under pressure

That burns a building down

Splits a family in two

Puts some people on the streets

[Chorus: Jamie Stewart and Michael Gira / Both]

It's the terror of knowing what this world is about

Watching some good friends scream, "Let me out!"

Pray tomorrow takes me higher

Pressure on the people

People on the streets

[Verse 2: Caralee McElroy]

Chippin' around

Kick my brains 'round the floor

These are the days

It never rains, but it pours

[Pre-Chorus: Jamie Stewart and Michael Gira]

People on the streets

People on the streets

[Chorus: Jamie Stewart and Michael Gira]

It's the terror of knowing what this world is about

Watching some good friends scream, "Let me out!"

Pray tomorrow takes me high, high, high

[Bridge: Jamie Stewart and Michael Gira]

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

Insanity laughs under pressure

We're cracking

[Verse 3: Jamie Stewart / Michael Gira and Caralee McElroy]

Why can't we give ourselves one more chance?

Why can't we give love that one more chance?

Why can't we give love, give love, give love?

Give love, give love, give love, give love, give love?

[Outro: Michael Gira / Jamie Stewart and Michael Gira]

'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