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]
How can I know
How can I see it through your eyes
Now you know
All those promises were lies

[Chorus 1]
You close your eyes
You close your mind
To all you lost
I count the days
I count the ways
I count the cost

[Chorus 2]
All that you are, no conscience
All you believe, no pride
All that you take, no reason
All that you leave, no right
All that you lose, no sorrow
All that you find, no shame
Can't take away the scar you left behind

[Verse 2]
How do you cry
When you've run right of tears
You justify
But the pain won't disappear

[Chorus 1]
I count the days
I count the ways
I count the cost

[Chorus 2]

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2]

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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