Pressure Machine
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About Pressure Machine
Here, Brandon Flowers sings about the burden put on Americans to flourish and prosper. He told HMV: "I was thinking about American pressure and the American dream, that pressure to succeed and deliver, the pressure to win, how everything is compounded by religious pressure. It feels like a machine." Flowers grew up in Henderson, just outside Las Vegas. When he was 8, he and his family moved to the rural Utah town of Nephi. During the second verse, he explores his gratitude for the way his parents raised him in Nephi. .
Pressure Machine Lyrics
[00:00.80] (We met dragging main at Spanish Fork)
[00:05.13] (And he wasn't moving away from here so it wasn't really
[00:10.12] (And we could build a house here, anyway)
[00:42.16] Hope'll set your eyes agleam
[00:46.58] Like four feet dangling in the stream
[00:51.27] The kingdom of God, it's a pressure machine
[00:55.99] Every step, gotta keep it clean
[01:00.88] A mattress on a hardwood floor
[01:05.59] Who could ever ask for more?
[01:10.23] I'll get up and cut the grass
[01:14.71] Ain't nothing wrong with working class
[01:20.24] I, I don't remember the last time you asked how I was
[01:38.86] Don't you feel the time slipping away?
[01:47.64] It ain't funny at all
[01:51.72] It's gonna break your heart one day
[01:57.48] Keep the debt cloud off the kids
[02:01.91] Only sunshine on their lids
[02:06.85] Jimmy Cricket and Power Wheels
[02:11.35] And memories of Happy Meals
[02:16.07] Sometimes I look at the stars
[02:20.83] I think about how small we are
[02:25.58] Sweating it out in the pressure machine
[02:30.28] Good 'til the last drop
[02:35.64] Why don't you say little things?
[02:45.08] Butterflies don't just dance on a string
[02:54.42] It feels like you clipped all their wings
[03:02.86] And every year goes by faster than the one before
[03:31.54] We had that treadmill now for months
[03:36.15] I think she might've used it once
[03:40.72] If I shut my mouth and keep the peace
[03:45.37] She'll cook my eggs in bacon grease
[03:50.42] Life'll grow you a big red rose
[03:54.84] Then rip it from beneath your nose
[03:59.57] And run it through the pressure machine
[04:04.30] And spit you out a name tag memory
[00:05.13] (And he wasn't moving away from here so it wasn't really
[00:10.12] (And we could build a house here, anyway)
[00:42.16] Hope'll set your eyes agleam
[00:46.58] Like four feet dangling in the stream
[00:51.27] The kingdom of God, it's a pressure machine
[00:55.99] Every step, gotta keep it clean
[01:00.88] A mattress on a hardwood floor
[01:05.59] Who could ever ask for more?
[01:10.23] I'll get up and cut the grass
[01:14.71] Ain't nothing wrong with working class
[01:20.24] I, I don't remember the last time you asked how I was
[01:38.86] Don't you feel the time slipping away?
[01:47.64] It ain't funny at all
[01:51.72] It's gonna break your heart one day
[01:57.48] Keep the debt cloud off the kids
[02:01.91] Only sunshine on their lids
[02:06.85] Jimmy Cricket and Power Wheels
[02:11.35] And memories of Happy Meals
[02:16.07] Sometimes I look at the stars
[02:20.83] I think about how small we are
[02:25.58] Sweating it out in the pressure machine
[02:30.28] Good 'til the last drop
[02:35.64] Why don't you say little things?
[02:45.08] Butterflies don't just dance on a string
[02:54.42] It feels like you clipped all their wings
[03:02.86] And every year goes by faster than the one before
[03:31.54] We had that treadmill now for months
[03:36.15] I think she might've used it once
[03:40.72] If I shut my mouth and keep the peace
[03:45.37] She'll cook my eggs in bacon grease
[03:50.42] Life'll grow you a big red rose
[03:54.84] Then rip it from beneath your nose
[03:59.57] And run it through the pressure machine
[04:04.30] And spit you out a name tag memory
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