Pressure

I might die walking by my apartment looking like this, I might never get in
I probably ride in an ambulance, being in the wrong neighbourhood and some niggas catch wind
I find it hard to get hired these days, but I hardly even seem to get fired these days
Man I'm tired, I been feeling uninspired these days
I be feeling like I probably should expire these days

Niggas say I wanna be a woman now
Try to tell 'em how I always been around
Funny how the niggas used to love me all a sudden wanna dub me as a mothafucking villain now
I'm a man, they insist, could it make such a difference?
I paid you in blood, can you stop the viciousness?
You worth all the cost of my sisters' existence? What is it?

I'm so sick of the questions, all their questions
Always prodding, intrusive, the motive elusive
Surrounded by people who speak like I'm stupid
And ignorant bitches who think that I choose this

My life was a lie, I was worried of sin
Turning against the young woman within
Though I don't wanna die now and grateful to live
I can't take one more minute in this heavy skin

It's pressure, pressure, pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure
It's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure, pressure, pressure
It's pressure, it's pressure, it's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure
It's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure, pressure, pressure

Man I knew a little trans girl, barely just a child
If you seen her, you would think her inhibition level wild
But beyond the broken pieces, she would try to crack a smile
I been watching from the future, her of acceptance of denial

While her confidence would crumble, I would try to give a dial
Yet connecting to the past could prolly take a little while
Her reception of my presence was affected by the crowd
Still on every message sent my pure intentions didn't sound

But I called Her, tried to warn Her
Couldn't shake her awake, she was deep in a sleep
She was spent from the fake shit and dreaming of me
Can't explain her mistake, couldn't reach her as he

I'm two decades too late, could'a saved her, it's me though
It's me, she's me, little girl in a boy's world, broke as can be
Finna cut off her long curls, play like it's sheik

Just to play on the playground without catching heat
Bullies told her to stay down, she laid round graves now
She chose not to say nothing, folks wouldn't stay round
She'll play make believe just to hide her disease

It's a rock and a hard place, a hill at my feet
At the top, I get rocked to the hard place beneath
And she start at the bottom, won't choose to be free
Think the reason she's so scared to finally be me

It's pressure, pressure, pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure
It's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure, pressure, pressure
It's pressure, it's pressure, it's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure
It's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure, pressure, pressure

It's pressure, pressure, pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure
It's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure, pressure, pressure
It's pressure, it's pressure, it's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure
It's pressure, pure pressure, peer pressure, pressure, pressure