Pressure

Album: Break The Cycle (2001)
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  • I just need this to be alright
    I can't feel this another night

    I can't take this I come unglued
    I might breakdown in front of you
    Necessary to medicate
    I'm not sleeping, can't stay awake

    Can't see through this
    Too much pressure
    Drowning in this
    Too much pressure

    If you need me I'll be here
    Half unconscious to escape my fear

    I can't take this I come unglued
    I might breakdown in front of you
    Necessary to medicate
    I'm not sleeping, can't stay awake

    Can't see through this
    Too much pressure
    Drowning in this
    Too much pressure

    My head hurts this s*** isn't getting me high
    My chest is so tight I think I am going to die
    My stomach's in knots and the room starts to spin
    As I wait for this Valium to slowly kick in

    Can't see through this
    Too much pressure
    Drowning in this
    Too much pressure [Repeat: x 2] Writer/s: AARRON LEWIS, JOHN APRIL, JOHN F. APRIL, JONATHAN WYSOCKI, JOSH ABRAHAM, JOSHUA ABRAHAM, MICHAEL J. MUSHOK, MICHAEL MUSHOK
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., O/B/O DistroKid, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 6

  • Kayla from D-ville, GaTHIS IS WHAT THE SONG IS REALLY ABOUT PEOPLE!!

    "Pressure"
    Aaron Lewis:"Pressure" is my response to the pressure I was under to get this record done. It's like a culmination of the pressure that I was under at the time because I was like half way through the record and I was now out of stuff that was readily and easily flowing through me. It was a combination of the pressure of that and a panic attack, which I get.
  • Kevin from Independence, MoErin And Zac. Both your thoughts are good, and are good interpitations of the song. But chris and Sarah hit it on the nose. it is about the pressures of finishing the album and it being better than Dysfunction.
  • Chris from Gallatin, Tnthe song is about the PRESSURE he feels to finish the album but it is also about the methods he used to cope with the PRESSURE "i just need THIS to be alright" "necessary to MEDICATE"
  • Sarah from Niagara Falls, CanadaAaron Lewis wrote this song because of the pressure he felt about the album such as getting it done on time and making sure it was a good follow up to dysfunction, as well as the pressures in his own life such as his chosen profession and dealing with things of the past
  • Zac from Drexel, MoThis song is about the pressures of life. And he is talking about drugs to medicate all the s--t that you have to go through in this world.
  • Erin from Joplin, Mo This song is about nothing ever being the way it should. I think he is saying nothing is ever good or bad, "I'm not sleeping can't stay awake"
    He is mainly talikng about all the pressure we have on us and how we have to "medicate" ourselves(another way of saying nothing is ever constant good or bad).
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