Def Leppard

Released: July 30, 2002

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen Rick Allen Richard Savage Vivian Campbell

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Here comes the flood
Can you feel the love
Washing over you
Like a tidal wave inside of you
Here comes the night
Can you see the light
Shining like the sun
You want to hide but
It's got you on the run
Every word you say
Is taking your breath away

[Chorus]
Cry, the demons that you hide
Screaming through the night
They won't forget you
Coming down, coming down, coming down, coming down
Need, the circus you got to feed
The wound that never heals
It don't let go
Coming down, coming down, coming down, coming down

[Verse 2]
She's here again
Your only friend
Watching over you
She never takes her eyes away from you
She's wide awake
As she lies in wait
Your chosen bride
A mother, a lover, a kick inside
Every single day
Is taken your breath away

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
It's been so long, since I've come undone
Slipping in to my second skin, to my second skin

[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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