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To Be AliveDef Leppard

Released: June 8, 1999

Songwriter: P.J. Smith Vivian Campbell

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
I know you don't believe it
Like I believe it
Oh no, it's not your thought
You sit alone inside a room
Wait for the world to come to you
They never do
It must be something that you can't let go
It hurts that you won't let me know

[Chorus]
Every time you want to
Any time I touch you
I can't help to be myself
I hold on to this moment
Any time is right to be alive

[Verse 2]
And then in conversation
I love the way you mention
Nothing's ever gone your way
With a hammer in your hand
You spell out a master plan
We never learn
It must be somebody holding your heart
Something that tears us apart

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
And I don't think that it's right
To let love pass by
Any time of life
It's good to be alive

[Outro]
Every time you want to
Any time I touch you
I can't help to be myself
Yes, every time you want to
Any time I touch you
I can't help what I feel
But it sure feels real
I want to hold on to this moment
Because babe it sure feels right
To be alive [x3]

Def Leppard

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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