Def Leppard

Released: May 14, 1996

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Could you ever steal a prayer to deny your God?
Could you ever buy your love and not count the cost?
And could you ever take a life when all was lost?
Would it ever be enough?
Could you bite the hand that feeds and then ask for more?
Could you kiss the wound that bleeds, spit it on the floor?
Could you open up your heart and then close the door?
Would it ever be enough?

[Chorus]
Every word you whisper
All the tears you hide
You die for love when it's alive
But where does love go when it dies?

[Verse 2]
If you came across your dream would you walk on by?
Hold a candle to the wind and just let it die
And is there room inside your mind for one more try?
Would it ever be enough?
I watch the time go rushing by it's like an ocean wave
Showing you no mercy throwing dirt upon your grave
You're drowning in the darkness and you're blinded by the light
And there ain't no prayer that's going to save you now
If you woke up from your sleep, blood on your hands
Would you wash the pain away? No one understands
There must be someone out there who can help you breathe again
Would it ever be enough?

[Chorus]

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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