Blood Pressure Lyrics

Speaking with Songfacts in a 2011 interview, drummer Darren King explained the song symbolizes the pressures he felt under while growing up as a strict Christian. He said: "I put a lot of self-imposed pressure to become Christ-like, literally. And not just ask myself what Jesus would do when I get in a sticky situation, but wonder when I was finally going to raise the dead or cast the demons out of a person, or do something greater than the guy that did those things. And that's a lot of pressure for a 14-year-old guy to deal with. A 14-year-old should just be worrying about his acne and treating girls with respect and good grades and being a good kid. Instead I was thinking about when I was going to prophesize for the first time for real. And so that's part of that, too. It's that blood, as well."