Farewell to the Pressure Kids Lyrics

Lyric discussion by rio197 

Cover art for Farewell to the Pressure Kids lyrics by Kevin Drew

to me, "pressure kids" are young people who want to be different just for the sake of being different.

"do it all in the name of the weak and the wrong" as in: these pressure kids justify themselves as bearers of the people's voice

"they will love to hate" is just what these pressure kids like to do.

"they all love to play themselves" means they love to indicate as if they are being themselves which is some kind of self-deception

"they all just play their ends" means they will do their part but only what they think is their part and you can't expect anything more from them

"they like to escalate, believe the measurers will form an alarm" to me means they like to raise an issue but they can't be expected to make a sustained effort to it because they expect somebody else will do just that

"who live the save-me lives and fall into arms that will always give us away" doesn't seem so obscure, the pressure kids live the kinds of lives that is essentially about them wanting to be saved (e.g. doing drugs) and falling in with the wrong people