THE PRESSURES AND THE PLEASURES Songtext
von Makoto Matsushita

Between the laughter and the tear
Way between the day and the year
Way between the silence and the shout
The Shadow and the light
Falls the night

"Pressures their heavy hands
Drumming down upon my heart
They may change your eyes to rain
The light to the dark"

Between the hammer and the heart
Way between the flame and the heat
Way between the calm and the fight
The black and the white
Falls the night

"Pressures their heavy hands
Pushing down their stone thumbs
They may bruise you with their touch
Press against the heart"


PRESSURES AND PLEASURES!
With their heavy hands
PRESSURES AND PLEASURES!
As you close your eyes
PRESSURES AND PLEASURES!
With their heavy hands
PRESSURES AND PLEASURES!
PRESSURES AND PLEASURES!

As they leave their marks on the waking and thumping heart
The day turns over and over again

The pain and the passion
The heartache and the bliss
Love and lust
Tension so tender
The knives and the nerves
Cruel is the kiss
Deep is the dance
The chill of the heat
Stone and motion
Whispers and screams
Broken and pure
Innocent and dark
Feathers and fear
Blind and vision
Strangers in touch
The beginning will end