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Work It OutDef Leppard

Released: May 14, 1996

Songwriter: Vivian Campbell

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Day and night, black and white
You take it all for granted
I'm the one who turns you on
When you don't know where you belong
And nothing seems to matter
I'm the one who's holding on
It's alright to be wrong
All we need's a little time
But nothing here can last that long

[Chorus]
We show the world a brand new face
It's taken us all this time
All this time
All of this doubt
We get to work it out
All of this doubt
We get to work it out

[Verse 2]
Yesterday you lost your way
Still looking for an answer
I'm the one who holds the key
When you don't know where you belong
And nothing seems to matter
I'll unlock this mystery

[Chorus][x2]

[Verse 3]
Day and night, black and white
Take it all for granted
(We get to work it out)
I'm the one who turns you on
Turns you on, turns you on
(All of this doubt)

[Outro]
When you don't know where you belong
And nothing seems to matter
(We get to work it out)
I'm the one who's holding on
Holding on, holding on

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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