Hoobastank - The Pressure lyrics

rate me

I can still remember when

At the tender age of ten

Mother told me I could be anything at all

Then when I was seventeen

Someone made that choice for me

And if I disagreed

I would end up on the street

Out on the street

We've been told for all our lives

This is who you have to be

Close your eyes, go back to sleep

Don't ask questions

Don't ask why

Just do exactly as they say

But I don't think that I can take

The pressure

The pressure

Looking back at twenty-one

I just wanted to have fun

But first I had to go make a name for myself

Now lately everywhere I go

Somebody wants to know

If something's wrong with me

Because I'm not like them

I'm not like them

We've been told for all our lives

This is who you have to be

Close your eyes, go back to sleep

Don't ask questions

Don't ask why

Just do exactly as they say

But I don't think that I can take

The pressure

The pressure

The pressure

The pressure

Tired of justifying who I am

I long to ask for something

More than what we've all been told to

Do you think there's something wrong with me

We've been told for all our lives

This is who you have to be

Close your eyes, go back to sleep

Don't ask questions

Don't ask why

Just do exactly as they say

But I don't think that I can take

The pressure

The pressure

The pressure

The pressure