Def Leppard

Released: August 3, 1987

Songwriter: Robert John Lange Phil Collen Steve Clark Richard Savage Joe Elliott

Producer: Robert John Lange

[Verse 1]
Feeling like it's all over
Feeling like there's no love
Feeling like it's not easy
Breathing life in the dust

[Chorus 1]
On a countdown to zero
Take a ride on the nightmare machine
There ain't going to be heroes
There ain't going to be anything, oh

[Chorus 2]
Here it comes, here comes the night
Here it comes, hell in the night
Here it comes, here comes the night

[Verse 2]
When we all fall down
When we walk into silence
When we shadow the sun
When we surrender to violence, oh
Then the damage is done
Put away that gun
I don't want to be there
I don't want to be anywhere, oh

[Chorus 2]
Here it comes, here comes the night
Here it comes, hell in the night
Here it comes, here comes the night

[Chorus 3]
We're fighting for the Gods of war
But what the hell we fighting for?
We're fighting with the Gods of war but I'm a rebel
And I ain't going to fight no more, no way

[Chorus 1]
On a countdown to zero
Take a ride on the nightmare machine
There ain't going to be heroes
There ain't going to be anything, oh

[Chorus 2]
Here it comes, here comes the night
Here it comes, hell in the night
Here it comes, here comes the night

[Chorus 3]
We're fighting for the Gods of war
But what the hell we fighting for?
We're fighting with the Gods of war
And I ain't going to fight no more
(Stop)

[Outro]
Stop fighting for the Gods of war
(Stop fighting for the Gods of war)
Yeah what the hell we fighting for?
(What in the hell we fighting for?)
We're fighting with the Gods of war
Heavy!

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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