Released: February 27, 1984
Songwriter: Brian May
Producer: Reinhold Mack Queen
[Intro]
Yeah!
[Verse 1]
Here we stand or here we fall
History won't care at all
Make the bed, light the light, yeah
Lady Mercy won't be home tonight, yeah
[Chorus 1]
You don't waste no time at all
Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
It comes to you as to us all
Yeah, we're just waiting
For the hammer to fall, yeah
[Verse 2]
Oh, every night and every day
A little piece of you is falling away
But lift your face, the Western Way
Build your muscles
As your body decays, yeah
[Chorus 2]
Tow the line and play their game
Yeah, let the anesthetic cover it all
Until one day they call your name
You know it's time for the hammer to fall
[Bridge]
Rich or poor or famous
For your truth is all the same
Yeah baby (Oh no, oh no)
Oh, lock your door but rain is pouring
Through your window pane (Oh no)
Baby, baby, now your struggle is all in vain
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
For we who grew up tall and proud
In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud
Convinced our voices can't be heard
We just wanna scream it louder
And louder and louder
[Chorus 3]
What the hell are we fighting for?
Oh, just surrender and it won't hurt at all
You just got time to say your prayers
While you are waiting
For the hammer to, hammer to fall
[Outro]
Hey, it's...
It's gonna fall
Hammer, you know
Yeah, hammer to fall
Woo! Yeah, yeah
Woo, woo!
Ha, yeah, waiting
For the hammer to fall, now baby
Yeah, yeah
While you're waiting
For the hammer to fall, ooh
Give it to me one more time!
Yeah!
[Verse 1]
Here we stand or here we fall
History won't care at all
Make the bed, light the light, yeah
Lady Mercy won't be home tonight, yeah
[Chorus 1]
You don't waste no time at all
Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
It comes to you as to us all
Yeah, we're just waiting
For the hammer to fall, yeah
[Verse 2]
Oh, every night and every day
A little piece of you is falling away
But lift your face, the Western Way
Build your muscles
As your body decays, yeah
[Chorus 2]
Tow the line and play their game
Yeah, let the anesthetic cover it all
Until one day they call your name
You know it's time for the hammer to fall
[Bridge]
Rich or poor or famous
For your truth is all the same
Yeah baby (Oh no, oh no)
Oh, lock your door but rain is pouring
Through your window pane (Oh no)
Baby, baby, now your struggle is all in vain
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
For we who grew up tall and proud
In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud
Convinced our voices can't be heard
We just wanna scream it louder
And louder and louder
[Chorus 3]
What the hell are we fighting for?
Oh, just surrender and it won't hurt at all
You just got time to say your prayers
While you are waiting
For the hammer to, hammer to fall
[Outro]
Hey, it's...
It's gonna fall
Hammer, you know
Yeah, hammer to fall
Woo! Yeah, yeah
Woo, woo!
Ha, yeah, waiting
For the hammer to fall, now baby
Yeah, yeah
While you're waiting
For the hammer to fall, ooh
Give it to me one more time!
Guitar Hero Live GHTV Soundtrack
- Been Away Too Long
- No Excuses
- Creepin’
- Do Me a Favor
- Spoonman
- She Looks So Perfect
- Disposable Teens
- The Fight Song
- mOBSCENE
- Higher Ground
- The One I Love
- Sing
- Hammer to Fall
- I Want to Break Free
- Shiny Happy People
- Stache (High Princess)
- Man in the Box
- Thunder on the Mountain
- Eye of the Tiger
- The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball
- Girls
- That’s My Kind of Night
- First Date
- Girls / Girls / Boys
- Sirens
- I Am Mine
- Pour Some Sugar on Me
- Somebody to You
- Addicted to Love
- I Want You to Know
- American You
- Nothing But a Good Time
- Children of the Night
- Party Like Tomorrow Is the End of the World
- Don’t Be Cruel
- Working for the Weekend
- Rock the Night
- Love Me
- Let’s Go
- Real Wild Child (Wild One)
- Uma Thurman
- Irresistible
- Blaze of Glory
- Because We Can
- I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
- Jessie’s Girl
- Left Hand Free
- Chasing the Sun
- Centuries
- Drown
- Something in the Water
- Famous
- Deep Six
- Dangerous
- Hanging on the Telephone
- Erase Me
- Oh Love
- Before He Cheats
- Under Cover of Darkness
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- You Know I’m No Good
- Live While We’re Young
- Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
- Try
- Them Bones
- Black Hole Sun
- I Want It All
- Sugar, We’re Goin Down
- Lust for Life
- You Only Live Once
- Let It Rock
- The Lazy Song
- All the Small Things
- The Rock Show
- Losing My Religion
- Freak on a Leash
- Reptilia
- Livin’ on a Prayer
- American Idiot
- We Are the Champions
- Good Girl
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- Sweater Weather
- Two Princes
- Dammit
- Monster
- We Built This City
- Going Under
- The Reason
- The Day I Tried to Live
- Black Rain
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Duality
- Taken for a Fool
- Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- The Kids Aren’t Alright
- Counting Stars
- My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’Em Up)
- Hangar 18
- Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
- Rock of Ages
- Valentine’s Day
- What About Love?
- Before I Forget
- Still into You
- Let Her Go
- Iris
- Chocolate
- Stone
- Guitar Hero Live GHTV Soundtrack
- The Works (1984)
- Greatest Hits II (1991)
- Classic Queen (1992)
- Queen Rocks (1997)
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Don’t Stop Me Now
- Love of My Life
- Killer Queen
- Another One Bites the Dust
- We Will Rock You
- Radio Ga Ga
- We Are the Champions
- The Show Must Go On
- Somebody to Love
- I Want to Break Free
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Bicycle Race
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Hammer to Fall
- You’re My Best Friend
- Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
- Who Wants to Live Forever
- ’39
- I Want It All
- Save Me
- Ay-Oh (Live Aid)
- Innuendo
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