Queen (Hot Space)

Official Album Cover

The Album

Queen (Hot Space) is the tenth studio album by the English rock band. Released on 21 May 1982 by EMI records. The album was a move away from their traditional work. With undertones of disco, funk, rhythm, blues, and pop music.

Track Listing

  1. Staying Power
  2. Dancer
  3. Back Chat
  4. Body Language
  5. Action This Day
  6. Put Out The Fire
  7. Life Is Real (Song For Lennon)
  8. Calling All Girls
  9. Las Palabras De Amor
  10. Cool Cat
  11. Under Pressure

Under Pressure

Lyrics

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

That’s OK
That’s the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
“Let me out!”
Tomorrow gets me higher
Pressure on people, people on streets

OK
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!”

Tomorrow gets me higher, higher
Pressure on people, people on streets (high)

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, love
Insanity laughs under pressure
We’re breaking

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, give love?

‘Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for the 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

Reference

Hot Space – Wikipedia