Def Leppard

Released: July 30, 2002

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

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Can't sleep at night
The darkness enslaves me
I turn out the light
And no one can save me
So try not to stare because I'm stripped to the bone
It's a trick of the light and I'm lost

[Chorus 1]
Feel like I'm falling
Gravity is dragging me
My head's about to break
Can't break my fall
Insanity inside of me
It's like I'm wide awake
Feel like I'm falling

[Chorus 2]
Can't recognize
I'm hypnotized
These feelings got me plagued
Can't take it all
This gravity is killing me
I can't stand up from falling down

[Verse 3]
I lie to myself
It don't make it easy, easy
If somebody else
Would only believe me
My sweat soaks the sheets and I'm hung out to dry
It's a trick of the light and I'm lost

[Chorus 1]

[Verse 3]
Wake up
Falling
Don't try to catch me, just let me fall
Eyes wide shut, don't make a sound
Keep falling till I hit the ground

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2]

[Chorus 2]

[Chorus 1]

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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