Rapid Fire – English Lyrics

• By: Judas Priest
• Album: British Steel

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Pounding the world

Like a battering ram

Forging the furnace

For the final grand slam

...

Chopping away at the source

Soon the course will be done

Leaving a trail of destruction

That's second to none

Hammering anvils

Screaming muscle and might

Shattering blows

Crashing brow beating fright

...

Fast, devastating and

Desolisating the curse

Blasting the cannons of truth

To each man of this earth

...

Wielding the axe

Comes the one culmination

That's always seemed

Certain to bring down the curtain on Bree

...

Sifting the good from the bad

It's the age for the rage of the

Dogs which must fall to the just

And be free

...

Now great for the vandals

Who trampled and sampled

'Til misplace condition

Brought forth demolition to all

...

The slipping and sliding

Corrosive subsiding

That withered and waned

'Til the world seemed all

Green fields today

...

Pounding the world

Like a battering ram

Forging the furnace

For the final grand slam

...

Chopping away at the source

Soon the course will be done

Leaving a trail of destruction

That's second to none

...

Second to none!

...

Key Grammar Structures

• Pounding the world like a battering ram

  ➔ Present participle phrase as adverbial

  ➔ "Pounding" is a present participle acting as an adverb, describing how the action of 'forging' is performed.

• That's second to none

  ➔ Superlative comparison

  ➔ "Second to none" is a fixed expression meaning the best or unsurpassed, using a superlative comparison.

• Soon the course will be done

  ➔ Future simple tense

  ➔ "Will be done" indicates a future action in the simple future tense.

• Sifting the good from the bad

  ➔ Gerund as subject

  ➔ "Sifting" is a gerund acting as the subject of the sentence.

• That withered and waned

  ➔ Past simple tense with conjunctive adverb

  ➔ "Withered" and "waned" are past simple verbs, and "that" is used as a conjunctive adverb to introduce a result.