What do you think Pressure means?

Paramore: Pressure Meaning

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Album cover for Pressure album cover

Song Released: 2005


Pressure Lyrics

Tell me where our time went
And if it was time well spent
Just don't let me fall asleep
Feeling empty again

Cause I fear I might break
and I fear I can't take it
Tonight I'll lie awake feeling empty

I can feel the pressure
It's...

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  1. anonymous
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     Mar 1st 2009 !⃝

    I think the song is about how teens are pressered into doing things all the time and how after it starts to get to you... and you just feel like you cant take it anymore and the "pressure" gets to you.

  2. anonymous
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     Feb 19th 2009 !⃝

    I think that this song is about suicide. Because the pressure is getting them down and stuff. Like "your're better off without me" The person thinks the pressure will be gone and that the world doesn't need them. Also because they are feeling empty all the time, maybe someone broke they're heart and they can't get over it or something, but I think the whole song is about a girl or boy who is thinking of committung suicide.

  3. grimmcgee
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     Feb 1st 2009 !⃝

    Almost all of the first album was about Jeremy, the bassist, leaving the band when they got famous. He was under pressure and didn't feel like being a musician was the path he wanted to take. He left for many reasons, his family, his girlfriend, his college education. But he ended up going back to Paramore when he realized that he was happiest when he was playing music.
    This song, to me, means that when you're feeling pressured about doing something, some/most people are better off without you.

  4. VegetarianVampire
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     Jan 10th 2009 !⃝

    i didnt figure this out it was posted by someone else but i do know who that person probably was:
    The album all we know is falling was written after Jeremy ( bassist) left the band, the album was basically all about him leaving. Thats y theres theres the couch on the cover of the album, it has a shadow showing Jeremy walking away (Jeremy comes back for their next album though YAY!)

    so heres what the other person wrote:
    I think this song is about Hayley losing someone she loved very dearly... but she doesn't understand why... Shes starting to think if all the time and effort she put into this person was even worth it... and if things will ever feel the same again in her life, how there is a hole where that person used to be... How life is different without this person

  5. anonymous
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     Sep 1st 2008 !⃝

    I agree with sweetxsin (I'm sorry if I didn't type that right) all the way. It makes perfect sense!

    Tell me where our time went
    And if it was time well spent
    Just don't let me fall asleep
    Feeling empty again

    ~ They are wondering if what they did with their music and how they got to where they are now is all worth it. You know, somewhere along those lines. I think it's pretty self-explanatory here.

    Cuz I fear I might break
    And I fear I can't take it
    Tonight I'll lie awake
    Feeling empty

    ~ This means that she just might burst with all the pressure of creating music that's good enough for everyone - her fans, the band, her family, her friends. It's like everything has to be perfect. And so she's just lying there feeling empty from all the pressure and thinking it over like "Oh my God, what am I going to do?" Like that. I've experienced this before. (Sorry, I am not very good at explaining things but I understand this fully)

    I can feel the pressure
    Its getting closer now
    We're better off
    Without you
    I can feel the pressure
    Its getting closer now
    We're better off
    Without you

    ~ Here she's saying bluntly that there is so much pressure on the band and that we'd write better, perform better, sing better, etc. If the pressure was gone.

    Now that I'm losing hope
    And there's nothing else to show
    For all of the days that we spent
    Carried away from home

    ~ Well, here she's losing hope of creating good enough music and she feels like she doesn't have anything else in her to create more music - like all her creativity and imagination, etc. Is gone. And she also misses home because she has spent a lot of days traveling with the band and stuff.

    Chorus again...

    Something I'll never know and I had to let them go [x2]
    Well I'm sitting all alone
    Feeling Empty

    ~ By being in a band and traveling so much, she's missing experiences she would normally have if she was just a normal teenager.

    Chorus again....

    And that's it.. XD

  6. anonymous
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     Jul 12th 2008 !⃝

    Okay so I don't know everything about this band, but what I have interpretations of a few parts.

    Okay, so of course part of it's about her, maybe her family or possibly the band losing someone close. She's wondering in the first part of the song if it was all just a waste of time. So its someone she spent a lot of time with and now that they are gone she feels empty. Some sort of relationship ending. Someone leaving. you could interpret it as a father running out on a family or a boyfriend or husband leaving his wife and child, or girlfriend and doggy.

    she didn't get complete closure. but she's realizing that the person has issues and that's why they left so she realizes she's better off without that person.
    i heard this song recently after a relationship of mine got all messed up.

    the part where she says "some things I'll never know and I had to let them go", that seems to be part of the closure thing. There's so many things that I wanted to know about why things ended. I didn't know why cause everything was so perfect then he changed suddenly. So I kept thinking over and over every day why why why and thinking what did I do. I kept wondering maybe he didn't like this or that about me or maybe I did something or he thought something. I kept thinking maybe if I had done something different and I kept just analyzing everything. but I knew deep inside that its just him. That he just has major issues. I treated him soo good.

    so that part of the song means to me that somethings you won't know about why someone did something and you can't let it mess with you. you just gotta let it go. cause you can't let it bring you down. Sometimes someone doesn't let you know things. people are sometimes very selfish. don't take everything personally or blame yourself.

    It's hard to get closure when you don't know what went wrong or why things had to happen. but you can't sit around the rest of your life wondering why. you gotta just move forward and try to get over it. being hurt hurts. losing someone close hurts and it can make you feel very depressed but you can't let it ruin your life.

  7. anonymous
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     May 2nd 2008 !⃝

    Ok I actually think it is about her and a guy who she knows could treat her a little better and she feels the pressure to break up because she is fed up with going to sleep feeling empty (with out the feeling like he wants and appreciates her) she is saying tell me where our time went( the time where they were happy) and if it was time well spent (was that time really worth it) and he doesn't get it when she says don't let me fall asleep feeling empty again. She is losing hope that they will stay together and she can't hide it thinking back to all those other times where it was like this but she had to let them go to be with him but yet again she is sitting alone feeling empty. She will never know if she made the right decision but she has to let that feeling go if she ever wants to be happy with out him. The reason I wrote so much is because I had a relationship just like I wrote above and it seemed to fit the song. I couldn't take the pressure so I broke up with him and I will never know if I made the right decision but I have to let that go to be happy.

  8. anonymous
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     Mar 20th 2008 !⃝

    Honestly? Just watch the video.
    There's the interpretation. :D :)

  9. anonymous
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     Feb 1st 2008 !⃝

    I think this song is about someone dear being taken away from her, but in truth she think she is better off without the person...just what I think.

  10. anonymous
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     Jan 23rd 2008 !⃝

    Well I was in a relationship with this guy and he never called leaving me feeling empty.his excuse was his jobs late hours and I understand that,but I still think he could have made a bigger effort. "Tell me where our time went
    And if it was time well spent
    Just don't let me fall asleep
    Feeling empty again

    'Cause I fear I might break
    And I fear I can't take it
    Tonight I'll lay awake, feeling empty"

  11. anonymous
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     Nov 10th 2007 !⃝

    So for short, it could mean every kind of pressure. Enough said.

  12. anonymous
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     Nov 1st 2007 !⃝

    I think it's about the pressure to be skinny, popular, have cool cloths, and have sex/take drugs/ and drink. Eventually it goes to far, but if you stop or never stop, the pressure stops

  13. anonymous
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     Oct 13th 2007 !⃝

    I think this song is about Hayley losing someone she loved very dearly... but she doesn't understand why... Shes starting to think if all the time and effort she put into this person was even worth it... and if things will ever feel the same again in her life, how there is a hole where that person used to be... How life is different without this person

  14. parawhore
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     Sep 18th 2007 !⃝

    This song (like most of the songs on the album) is about Jeremy Davis their bassist leaving so the person above me was close but hunter had not yet left the band when they finished this album, Jeremy is back though so its all good =)

  15. anonymous
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     Jul 3rd 2007 !⃝

    This is about when the guitarist hunter left. and they (Paramore) feels like all they know is falling.like if everything's just falling apart.

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