Here, Brandon Flowers sings about the burden put on Americans to flourish and prosper. He told HMV: "I was thinking about American pressure and the American dream, that pressure to succeed and deliver, the pressure to win, how everything is compounded by religious pressure. It feels like a machine." Flowers grew up in Henderson, just outside Las Vegas. When he was 8, he and his family moved to the rural Utah town of Nephi. During the second verse, he explores his gratitude for the way his parents raised him in Nephi.

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