Def Leppard

Released: June 8, 1999

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Intro]
Hey! Hey! Hey!

[Chorus 1]
I'm back in your face like I've never been away
I'm back in your face and it's where I'm going to stay
Like a runaway mack, like a a union jack
I'm back
Hey! Hey!

[Verse 1]
I can stand tall, I can stick out a mile
I can come crawling like a hungry reptile

[Chorus 2]
I'm coming around, I'm wired for sound
Shaking it for all it's worth
I'm a spaced-out alien, a techno-sapien
Crashing on down to earth

[Chorus 1]

[Verse 2]
I can pour your drink, be the perfect host
I can scare the pants off the holiest ghost

[Chorus 2]

[Chorus 1]

[Verse 3]
Back in the middle, back in the ring
Backing a winner, it's a sure shot thing
Back in your good books, I did you no wrong
Here I am honey, I'm back where I belong
Belong, belong, belong

[Bridge]
I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yeah I'm back
You better believe that I'm back
Now let me tell you I'm back
Can't you see that I'm back
Come on and do it, I'm back
There's nothing to it, I'm back

[Outro]
I'm back in your face like I've never been away
I'm back in your face and it's where I'm going to stay
Like a runaway mack, like a union jack
I'm back in your face and don't it feel so good
I'm back in your face and just like I knew that it would
Like a runaway mack, like a union jack
Sheer heart attack and a Jumping jack flash
Like a leader of the pack
And as a matter of fact I'm back

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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