Def Leppard

Released: July 6, 1981

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Pete Willis Steve Clark

Producer: Robert John Lange

Hang on
Yeah
Ha ha ha ha ha
I don't care too much
For your backstabbing and side stepping
You're all sweet talk, you're all lust
You're the kind, yeah, I don't trust
I got to get out, step aside
Before you damage my pride
Let me through don't spoil my view
I got to get away, away from you

[Chorus]
Oh no no never thought I'd feel so low
You got me running
You got me running
I ain't going to hide
And yesterday everything seemed okay
Yeah you better run and hide away
Oh you better hide

[Verse 2]
You're out, out on the street
But I'm back on my feet
I might lose it, so get wise
Stop your using and your lies
Oh my friend don't stick around
Your time is up, the chips are down

[Chorus][x2]

[Bridge]
You got me running - You got me running
You got me running - You got me running
You got me running - You got me running
You got me running, running, running

[Chorus]

[Outro][x6]
You got me running (You got me running)

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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