This song shows really talks about Holden's everyday pressure, which stresses him out and leads to his self-destruction, alienation, and loneliness.
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure
That burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Bah bah bah bah bah bah
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out!
Pray tomorrow takes me higher
Pressure on people
People on streets
Do do do bah bah bah bah
O-kay
Chippin' around
Kick my brains round the floor
These are the days
It never rains but it pours
People on streets
People on streets
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out!
Pray tomorrow takes me higher higher higher
Pressure on people
People on streets
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
Why why why?
Love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
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?
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care
For 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 under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure
The first stanza, which says, "Pressure pushing down on me, Pressing down on you no man ask for, Under pressure, That burns a building down, Splits a family in two, Puts people on streets" ultimately displays Holden's life. Ever since Allie died, we have known that Holden has had this strange desire to be the catcher in the rye, which puts a tremendous pressure on him. He gets so stressed out, that he fails out of school, and leaves to the city to live in the streets. Then it says, "It's the terror of knowing, What this world is about" which exemplifies how Holden dislikes the adult world, the phony world, which leads him to feel like he needs to save the children from this phoniness which is ultimately where all of this pressure comes from.
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