Def Leppard

Released: March 31, 1992

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen Richard Savage Robert John Lange

Producer: Mike Shipley Def Leppard

[Verse 1]
No promises, no guarantees
When you come down here you're already on your knees
You want to ride white lightning then sign your name
If you want to dance with the Devil
You got to play his way, play the game
You got to taste that sweetness
Because you can't say no
But are you ready for the nightmare when you can't let go
Like a soldier of fortune when the money runs dry
You got rivers of bitter tears in your eyes

[Chorus 1]
You want to leave but you can't let go
You want stop but you can't say no
You'll never laugh about it, you just can't live without it
You had enough but you just want more
You never get what you're looking for
You'll never laugh about it, never

[Verse 2]
You got both ends burning like a moth to a flame
You're going off the rails like a runaway train
It's a no win situation, there's no way out
And no one will ever hear you
Scream and shout

[Chorus 1]

[Pre-Chorus]
Run, he's coming to claim you
Run, nowhere to hide away
Run, you dance with danger
Run, oh, you got to ride the

[Chorus 2]
White lightning on a dead end street
White lightning, where the deadbeats meet
White lightning, it's a one way ride
White lightning, oh, there's nowhere to hide
Oh, can you believe me babe?

[Verse 3]
Such a lonely road you ride
It's not easy when you don't know why
Such a heavy load you hide
You never leave no matter how you try

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus 2]

[Outro]
White lightning, can you feel it, can you feel it?
White lightning, it's so dangerous
White lightning, no promises, no guarantees
White lightning

In 1977, Rick Savage, Tony Kenning, and Pete Willis were students at a secondary school in Sheffield, England. They had a band called Atomic Mass. Lead singer Joe Elliott joined later that year, and suggested a new band name. Within 10 years, that name, Def Leppard, became one of the most recognised in English rock music. To date, they have released more than 40 singles.

Def Leppard was a definitive part of the new wave of British heavy metal bands in the late 1970s. Their first three albums had tremendous momentum, each outselling the one before. Then, after the release of Pyromania in 1983, drummer Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident. The band stuck by him through his recovery and retraining.

When Def Leppard came back, they came back hard. Their fourth album, 1987’s Hysteria, was a hard rock masterpiece that took the world by storm. By then the music video had matured as a film style, and Hysteria’s singles and videos had enough pop, sex, colour, and glam to put it over the top. Hysteria was one of the biggest-selling albums of the 1980s.

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