Def Leppard

Released: June 8, 1999

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen Richard Savage

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Cold nights, dark days
Love moves in mysterious ways
It's so sweet like a mother's tongue
Whose symphony protects her young
But this truth ain't what it seems
Because you and I have different dreams
You rise up but you never learn
As we try to shake this sleep that burns
The darkness screams its icy breath
As daylight dies a thousand deaths

[Chorus]
Kings of oblivion, deadly and divine solution
Kings of oblivion, welcome to my revolution

[Verse 2]
Reach out to the past
We blame the victim first and last
Blind faith got you and me
Running like a refugee
We fall out and into the street
To wash the blood out of the sheets
And your pain, it flows like wine
As my subconscious reaps your mind
I stretch to kiss the burning sky
And watch the waking beauty cry

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Is it such a crime to watch the sunset for the last time
Until we meet again, goodbye, farewell, amen
Cold nights, dark days
Love moves in mysterious ways
We rise up but you'll never learn
As we try to shake this sleep that burns
The darkness screams its icy breath
As daylight dies a thousand deaths

[Chorus][x2]

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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