Under Pressure
Bowie & Lyrics

Mm ba ba de
Vocalization without meaning

Um bum ba de
More meaningless vocalization

Um bu bu bum da de
And yet more vocalization...

Pressure pushing down on me
The overwhelming stress I feel

Pressing down on you no man ask for
And it's not just me, but you too

Under pressure that brings a building down
This level of stress can be destructive

Splits a family in two
It can also break apart relationships

Puts people on streets
Causing people to lose their homes and livelihoods

Um ba ba be
More meaningless vocalization

De day da
A complete non sequitur

Ee day da that's okay
But it's okay, I guess...

It's the terror of knowing
The root of all this anxiety is the knowledge

What the world is about
Of how the world really works

Watching some good friends
This worldview is made more difficult

Screaming Let me out
When our friends are feeling overwhelmed

Pray tomorrow gets me higher
We hope for a better future

Pressure on people people on streets
But in the present, the pressure puts everyone in a difficult situation

Day day de mm hm
Still no meaning

Da da da ba ba
Or here either

Chippin' around kick my brains around the floor
We're getting frantic, grasping at anything for relief

These are the days it never rains but it pours
When it rains, it pours, as the saying goes

Ee do ba be
More incomprehensible vocalization

Be lap
Nonsense syllables

Turned away from it all like a blind man
We try to ignore it, like a blind person

Sat on a fence but it don't work
Even when we try to stay neutral, it doesn't work

Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn
We try to counteract with love, but it's not enough

Why, why, why?
We're left questioning why this is happening

Love love love love love
Love, as a concept, is invoked repeatedly

Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking
The pressure is driving us to our limits

Can't we give ourselves one more chance
As a last resort, we're asking for another chance

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

Give love give love give love give love
Let's try giving love yet again, over and over

'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
We acknowledge that love isn't a solution for modern problems

And love dares you to care for
But still, love urges us to care

The people on the (people on streets) edge of the night
To care for those in the most desperate of circumstances

And loves (people on streets) dares you to change our way of
Love urges us to change our ways of

Caring about ourselves
Being selfish and insensitive

This is our last dance
This is our last chance, our final opportunity

Under pressure
To do something, anything, under the weight of all this pressure

Pressure
Pressure