Def Leppard

Released: May 14, 1996

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
I'm tired of feeling hateful
I'm tired and I can't breathe
So tired I would be grateful
If you close the door when you leave
That's me digging my heels in
That's me with the Holy Ghost
Excuse me but I don't remember
Where were you when I needed you most

[Chorus]
And I'm tied to the sky
As you claw at my eyes
And I wait for the flood
I swim in blood
As I crawl to my knees
And I beg your disease
Taste the ice on your breath
As you catch your death

[Bridge]
I close my eyes
Embrace the weave
Deliver me

[Verse 2]
Hey you, the voice of reason
Hey you, are you listening to me?
It's you that I can't believe in
I don't buy what I don't see
Say good bye because I don't need

[Chorus][x2]

[Outro]
I close my eyes, embrace the weave
Abandon me, save the day
That I won't see, deliver me

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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