Here we stand or here we fall / History won’t care at all / Make the bed, light the light / Lady Mercy won’t be home tonight, yeah

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 / We’re just waiting / For the hammer to fall, yeah

Oh, ev’ry 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

Toe your line and play their game, yeah / Let the anaesthetic cover it all / Till one day they call your name / You know it’s time for the hammer to fall

Rich or poor or famous / For your truth it’s all the same (oh no, oh no!) / Lock your door the rain is pouring / Through your window pane (oh no!) / Baby, now your struggle’s all in vain

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

What the hell we fighting for? / Oh, just surrender and it won’t hurt at all / You just got time to say your prayers / While your waiting for the hammer, the hammer to fall…

[By Brian May © Emi / Capitol Records, 1984]