Def Leppard – Photograph

About The Song

“Photograph” is a song by the English rock band Def Leppard and produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange. It is the lead single from the band’s third studio album, Pyromania (1983). Their lead vocalist Joe Elliott has described the song as generally about “something you can’t ever get your hands on”. When released as a single it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, where it stayed for six weeks, and No. 12 on the Pop Singles chart.

In 2008, they performed the song with Taylor Swift on CMT Crossroads. The performance was nominated for both Wide Open Country Video of the Year and CMT Performance of the Year at the 2009 CMT Music Awards.

In 2013, the song was featured in the Grand Theft Auto V video game, on the Los Santos Rock Radio station. It was also featured in the DLC release of Rock Band 3, in 2011.

The song has been described as pop metal, glam metal, hard rock and power pop.

Cash Box called it “a well-crafted if typical hard-pop outing,” praising the “incendiary metal guitar licks and deafening drumbeats.”

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Lyrics

Huh!

I’m outta luck, outta love
Got a photograph, picture of
Passion killer, you’re too much
You’re the only one I wanna touch

I see your face every time I dream
On every page, every magazine
So wild and free,
So far from me
You’re all I want, my fantasy

Oh, look what you’ve done to this rock ‘n’ roll clown
Oh-oh, look what you’ve done

Photograph
I don’t want your photograph
I don’t need your photograph
All I’ve got is a photograph
But it’s not enough

I’d be your lover, if you were there
Put your hurt on me, if you dare
Such a woman, you got style
You make every man feel like a child, oh

You got some kinda hold on me
You’re all wrapped up in mystery
So wild and free
So far from me
You’re all I want, my fantasy

Oh, look what you’ve done to this rock ‘n’ roll clown
Oh-oh, look what you’ve done

I gotta have your

Photograph
I don’t want your photograph
I don’t need your photograph
All I’ve got is a photograph

You’ve gone straight to my head

Oh, look what you’ve done to this rock ‘n’ roll clown
Oh-oh, look what you’ve done

I gotta have your
I gotta have your

Photograph
I don’t want your photograph
I don’t need your photograph
All I’ve got is a photograph

I wanna touch you

Oh
Photograph
Photograph
Your photograph
Photograph
Photograph
I need more than your photograph
I’m outta love
Photograph
I’m outta luck
Photograph
You’re the only one
Photograph
I wanna touch
Photograph
Photograph