About The Song
“Hysteria” is a song by English rock band Def Leppard. It is the tenth track on their 1987 album of the same name and was released as the album’s fourth single in November 1987. The song became the band’s first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 10.
On VH1 Storytellers: Def Leppard, lead singer Joe Elliott revealed that the song title came from drummer Rick Allen. The song features a clean guitar melody and heavily multi-tracked vocals in its chorus. The “extreme” nature of producer Mutt Lange’s recording methods is also exampled in the pre-chorus, where the clean guitar chords were recorded one note at a time as opposed to the traditional method of strumming them, in effect “building” a chord by recording the notes that make them up. An acoustic rendition of the song was performed by Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen on the Hysteria edition of VH1’s Classic Albums.
Cash Box called it a “solid rocker with sophistication, Supertramp-ish chorus backgrounds and a cutting edge vocal.”
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Lyrics
Out of touch, out of reach, yeah
You could try to get closer to me
I’m in love, I’m in deep, yeah
Hypnotized, I’m shakin’ to my knees
I gotta know tonight
If you’re alone tonight
Can’t stop this feelin’
Can’t stop this fire
Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria
Oh, can you feel it? (Oh, can you feel it?)
Do you believe it? (Do you believe it?)
It’s such a magical mysteria
When you get that feelin’ (when you get that feelin’)
Better start believin’ (better start believin’)
‘Cause it’s a miracle
Oh, say you will, ooh babe
Hysteria when you’re near’
Out of me, into you, yeah
You can’t hide, it’s just a one-way street
Oh, I believe I’m in you, yeah
Open wide, that’s right
Dream me off my feet
Oh, believe in me
I gotta know tonight
If you’re alone tonight
Can’t stop this feeling
Can’t stop this fire
Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria
Oh, can you feel it? (Oh, can you feel it?)
Do you believe it? (Do you believe it?)
It’s such a magical mysteria
When you get that feelin’ (when you get that feelin’)
Better start believin’ (better start believin’)
‘Cause it’s a miracle
Oh, say you will, ooh babe
Hysteria when you’re near’
C’mon
I gotta know tonight
If you’re alone tonight
Can’t stop this feeling
Can’t stop this fire
Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria
Oh, can you feel it? (Oh, can you feel it?)
Do you believe it? (Do you believe it?)
It’s such a magical mysteria
When you get that feelin’ (when you get that feelin’)
Better start believin’ (better start believin’)
‘Cause it’s a miracle
Oh, say you will, ooh babe (oh, can you feel it?)
Ooh, babe (do you believe it?)
Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria
(When you get that feelin’) You better believe it
Better start believin’ (better start believin’)
God, it’s a miracle
Oh, say you will, ooh babe
Say you will
Get closer to me
Get closer, baby (oh)
Baby
Closer (get closer)
Closer (get closer)
Closer to me