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