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Can’t Keep Away from the FlameDef Leppard

Released: October 23, 1995

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen

Producer: Pete Woodroffe Def Leppard

Lonely, lonely, lonely child, crystalline and lace
Won't you walk me awhile, put a smile upon my face
I don't wanna take your love in vain
Gonna keep on coming back again
Beauty leads the full grown child, a rose among the thorns
Like a ray of sunshine, she comes, heaven in my arms
I don't wanna take your love in vain
Gonna keep on coming back again

When I see you smilin'
It takes away my pain

Oh, there's no denyin'
Can't keep away from the flame

A thousand indian summers, die in desert sands
The moon and lover's shadows, they go slippin' through our hands
I don't wanna take your love in vain
Gonna keep on coming back again

I don't wanna take your love in vain
Gonna keep on coming back again

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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