No Peer Pressure

By Stephen M. Golden

Copyright © 22 December 1992

Someone asked me yesterday

how I hold up in my peer group.

Do I feel forced to go their way,

or do things I wouldn’t otherwise do

I put my hands in the back of my designer Jeans.

I had to tell the poor soul I don’t know what he means.

Chorus

Don’t feel no peer pressure.

I’m as free as the wind and the weather.

They’ll think I’m weird if I don’t fit in,

That don’t mean that it’s peer pressure.

My friends and I were talkin’ over lunch

’bout the things they’d done in secret.

Then they asked me what I’d ever done.

I couldn’t think of anything to say next.

I knew they never would believe a lie.

Was I embarrassed for the sins I hadn’t tried?

Chorus

Don’t feel no peer pressure.

I’m as free as the wind and the weather.

They’ll think I’m weird if I don’t fit in,

That don’t mean that it’s peer pressure.

Should I score with a girl when I'm out on a date?

Do I take my base or do I hesitate?

All the guys on the team say I should go for the run.

They're all my friends they wouldn't steer me wrong.

Teacher asked in class the other day

Where did we think that we came from.

“Straight to the point,” he proceeded to say,

“Who believes in Evolution?”

I have a mind, I can think for myself.

I raised my hand just like everyone else.

Alternate Chorus:

Don’t feel no peer pressure.

I’m as free as the wind and the weather.

Am I influenced by what people think?

Could it be that it’s peer pressure?