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Die Hard the HunterDef Leppard

Released: January 20, 1983

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Richard Savage Steve Clark Robert John Lange

Producer: Robert John Lange

[Verse 1]
Let's welcome home the soldier boy
(Far away, far away)
No angel of mercy just a need to destroy
(Far away, far away)
Let's toast the hero with blood in his eyes
The scars on his mind took so many lives
Die hard the hunter

Welcome home soldier boy
Put down your pistol, yeah, put down your toy
Yeah, they can take the gun away from you
But never take away your attitude

They can't do that, no no no, they can't do that

You got no enemy, no front line
The only battle's in the back of your mind
You don't know how to change from bad to good
You brought the war to your neighborhood
You can't do that, you can't do that

They can't do that, no no no, they can't do that

[Chorus]
(Die hard)
You're caught in a trap
(Hunter)
There's no looking back
(Die hard)
He's lost in the crowd
(Hunter)
Die hard and proud

[Bridge]
Die hard the hunter
Die hard the hunter
Die hard the hunter
Die hard the hunter

[Verse 2]
Back in the city he's a man on the loose
He is the shadow that's following you
He takes no prisoners, when he's hunting for game
He's got a bullet and it carries your name

You can't do that, you can't do that, you can't do that

[Chorus]
(Die hard)
You're caught in a trap
(Hunter)
There's no looking back
(Die hard)
He's lost in the crowd
(Hunter)
Die hard and proud

(Die hard)
You're caught in a trap
(Hunter)
There's no looking back
(Die hard)
He's lost in the crowd
(Hunter)
Die hard and proud

[Bridge]
Die hard the hunter
Die hard the hunter
Die hard the hunter
Die hard the hunter

[Outro]
Die hard the hunter
Die hard the hunter
You can't do that
You can't do that, no no no

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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