Pressure doesn't make diamonds

Pressure, pressure, pressure
Hurts, hurts, hurts
Under so much pressure

Pressure to do the right thing
Pressure to be something
Doing all this hard work
Just for my failures to lurk

Pressure, pressure, pressure
Crack, crack, crack
Under so much pressure

Even after all that pressure
You don't get anything better
Still the same results
Still the same faults

Pressure, pressure, pressure
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