Pressure (With Mick Ronson) (2006 Remastered)

T-Bone Burnett
Album : Proof Through The Night (Remastered)

I was once obsessed with being cool, being no one's fool
Breaking every rule
Winning every duel
I tried to hide behind my pride and so I lied
Even when I told the truth
And it's a lot of pressure
From behind
There are those who loom somewhere in doom
And they presume
To tell you what to do
They would run your life for you
And at times they've made me so afraid that I was plagued
By doubt and grew confused
And it's a lot of pressure
From all sides
But I will hold on to this hope
That life is not some gruesome joke
That love is not some wretched lie
Oh
How I cry
Ay Ay Ay
I can't ask you to measure whether you can weather
This storm that beats the shore
By some means of keeping score
Cause, filled with dread, I've heard it said
Only the dead
Have seen the end of war
And it's a lot of pressure
From below