I remember the same images. My friend went from an 1981 Turbo Trans Am to a 1985 IROC Z during this time frame. I would be driving with the T Tops off, and a shower would come up and I would want to pull over to put them back on, he would say, drive faster. 100+mph and Priest blaring on the stereo. GREAT TIMES!!!!
Cruisin' the back roads the summer of 84. Heading to parties at a different classmate's house with parents gone. All night drive-in movies with all your friends. No cell phones, no internet, no social media, just good times....
Few years back had gone through so much depression and grief after my mom passed away to cancer. Whenever the sun would set I would feel so dark and hopeless inside. I could connect so much with the lyrics of the song those days. Thanks a ton Priest.
In the last rays of the setting sun And the past days, that's where our memories run And all of those times Still race through my mind I'm shattered inside to find When the night comes down And I'm here all alone When the night comes down There's nowhere to go Call me and I'll wait till the summer You never understood That I'll wait forever For love that's only good As the light starts to dim The fear closes in And the nightmares begin When the night comes down And I'm here all alone When the night comes down And there's no place to go Oh no you won't be there tomorrow Oh no say it isn't true I can't take this pain and sorrow Oh can't you see my heart is broken in two Oh, say I'm trying inside to fight When the night comes down And I'm here all alone When the night comes down And there's no place to go
man that first 20 seconds. probably haven't heard this song in 35 years that intro gave me goosebumps... great music and memories growing up in a simple friendly world.
21 years old and I continue down the Rabbit hole of Judas Priest Update: 23 years old now, own a few albums this one and Ram It Down, seen them live and plan to see them again this year.
I have not heard this song since probably 1987. But I never forgot the power ballad aspect. Hearing it just now- why did I ever sell those old Priest records! Looking forward to Halford Blues album. GET TO WORK ROB!
Lo escucho hoy después de unos meses , todo el álbum y sin duda el mejor álbum de JUDAS de todos los tiempos y de todos los álbunes del mundo 🌎🌍🌍🌍 entero...🎸🎸🎸✨🎵👌💯💯💯💯 X X X 💯💯💯💯 Heavy Metal. Larga vida JUDAS PRIEST , infinita..✨🌍🌍🌎🌎🎸🎸
I loved listening to this song on my cassette 😳 lying in my bed at night with my headphones on... The song is dark and perfect before going to sleep...🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿
Dude, Priest, you made me come back to the times when I began listening to metal music... This song has an amazing aura, Love you so Much and please if you can release the song Run of the Mill of the Rocka Rolla album. Keep on Rocking!!
Memories of metal nights to this song, among many others, but this one I remember travelling while drinking with friends. Still doing it at 50, only now I sing the way I always dreamt of and I''m kickin f ass after giving my all for 30 years to achieve it.
Got my own story to tell here. Around the time when I first heard this song, and the event happened that led to my discovery of it. I was in my late teens and we had a family reunion where I had met several of my cousins for the first time. One of my cousins who I thought was really cool gave me the impression that she didn't want to talk to me or to know me and would do anything to get away from me. She would just seemingly disappear the moment I entered the room. It felt pretty bad because it made me think that she found me disgusting and repulsive yet she would happily hang out with everyone else. I felt unwanted and then when she did it one more time, I disappeared out of there. I never wanted to see her again, so I left the interaction and disappeared somewhere where nobody could find me for several hours. Around the same time as a teenage metal fan, I had discovered Judas Priest and had loved them but I had only just gotten the Defenders album. In my depressed state, I took my Walkman and put this album on to feel better. It felt good but when I got to this song, it was unlike anything I had heard and given the song is about being rejected and loneliness, it was as if the song knew what I was feeling and it was soothing that pain. It couldn't have come at a better time. It just cleansed me of everything and assured me that I would get through this. After I heard it, I was smiling again and feeling better. At the next event, I didn't care about my cousin anymore and just carried on. She was there but I wasn't concerning myself with her presence. Strangely enough, she then came up to me and started talking to me. I wasn't expecting anything but here she was now trying to talk with me. She then asked me where I went the day before for several hours. I then asked why she was so interested in that. She was like ''I noticed your absence and I was worried that you were feeling left out or unwanted by us. I want you to know that we really care about you and we want you with us''. I almost collapsed. It turned out that she wouldn't talk to me because she was very shy. Today we are now very close. Every time I hear this song, it is a reminder of how I felt at the time and how I got through it.
The most raw outpouring of emotion on the album and that’s fucking saying something. Thank you Rob for enduring enough pain to render such a performance.
In my 11,000-plus song collection there are some 100 songs I awarded a (subjective) score of 4 maximum stars. This is one of them. What an amazingly haunting atmosphere. And talk about laid-back drumming! Rob Halford does wonders with his voice here.
Qué recuerdos tan fantásticos se vienen a mi mente al escuchar esta canción, gracias Judas Priest, crecí con tus canciones y me acompañaste durante casi toda mi vida
I rediscovered this during the maw of the pandemic ….i started rucking in the Arizona desert heat in the middle of the day with a 30 lb weight and listened to this over and over and over ….
THE GREATEST HEAVY METAL POWER BALLAD OF ALL TIME. THANK YOU MR. ROB HALFORD FOR BEING THERE IN THE WORST OF TIMES FOR ME. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I JUST WISH OUR FRIEND MR. RONNIE JAMES DIO WAS WITH US SO YOU GUYS COULD MAKE ANOTHER HEAR N AID CD TO HEAL THE WORLD IN PLACES WHERE THERE IS THE MOST SUFFERING. LOVE YOUR MR. ROB HALFORD. THE METAL GOD!
61 Years old and still Loving it
Same!
One of the best Judas Priest songs.
The opening riff makes me feel like I’m driving off into a radical 80s sunset in a pristine IROC-Z
With long hair....denim jacket...kelly bundy in passenger seat....1985 forever!
It went me 80's but i imaginated it night :D
I remember the same images. My friend went from an 1981 Turbo Trans Am to a 1985 IROC Z during this time frame. I would be driving with the T Tops off, and a shower would come up and I would want to pull over to put them back on, he would say, drive faster. 100+mph and Priest blaring on the stereo. GREAT TIMES!!!!
@anthonyharmon9265 dream on
Wow. Memories... Growing up, hanging with my friends, chillin listening to priest. I miss them.
Contact them, almost everyone have facebook today
yep...same
crazy how it brings back the memories
..that's when our memories run .. (:
Life is for the living is a tuff pill to swallow
Did the same bud we partied....
Best Priest album ever in my opinion!! Every song on this album is golden!👍
It is true for side A plus this beauty.
My top 3 are turbo, sfv and this one
Eat me alive is abit ropey. Classic album though
The A side rules B side is not as good.
I have to go with Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather
2024 and still listening to Judas Priest!
Me too
me too!!
80s metal was and still is very powerful 🤘!!!!
En mi opinión el mejor
Agree....so glad I was there 🤘
My soul will eternally be locked in that era with The Priest.
Cruisin' the back roads the summer of 84. Heading to parties at a different classmate's house with parents gone. All night drive-in movies with all your friends. No cell phones, no internet, no social media, just good times....
Man you summed up my teenage years to the T. 👍
We didn't know how good we had it back then. Now where here in 2025.
Judas Priest always delivers ballads with balls. I'll proudly be a Defender of the Faith until the day I die.
Woo hoo me toooooo🤘
The Greatest Metal Ballad Ever.
Yes!!! 🤘
Few years back had gone through so much depression and grief after my mom passed away to cancer. Whenever the sun would set I would feel so dark and hopeless inside. I could connect so much with the lyrics of the song those days. Thanks a ton Priest.
DAD… where are you? I miss you. This was one of your fave songs 😭😭😭😭 🕊
Ufff!! Que comentario, se me salió una lágrima, también extraño a mi viejo.
This album was and is a blessing in the skies. Complex, yet melodic. Brutally virtuoso guitar work here.
Do you mean a blessing in disguise?
your preaching to the chorus dude
Happy Birthday Glenn Tipton,born 25 October 1947(UK)
Great music to blast on car radio at 3 in the morning in the 90s
Y
In the last rays of the setting sun
And the past days, that's where our memories run
And all of those times
Still race through my mind
I'm shattered inside to find
When the night comes down
And I'm here all alone
When the night comes down
There's nowhere to go
Call me and I'll wait till the summer
You never understood
That I'll wait forever
For love that's only good
As the light starts to dim
The fear closes in
And the nightmares begin
When the night comes down
And I'm here all alone
When the night comes down
And there's no place to go
Oh no you won't be there tomorrow
Oh no say it isn't true
I can't take this pain and sorrow
Oh can't you see my heart is broken in two
Oh, say I'm trying inside to fight
When the night comes down
And I'm here all alone
When the night comes down
And there's no place to go
Man are you crying? Why are your eyes so red?
Anyone who takes time to post Judas Priest lyrics, is a friend of mine!
@@maxaromero9981 bruh, it's an emotional song!
@@maxaromero9981 Wait till he posts Before the Dawn (:
Ily 🖤🖤🖤
man that first 20 seconds. probably haven't heard this song in 35 years that intro gave me goosebumps... great music and memories growing up in a simple friendly world.
Some of the best from Mr Kk and Mr Glen...The riffs are sooo sweet
Absolutely love priest, always thought screaming was their opus. I’ve since changed my mind and decided defenders is their masterpiece.
Stained Class and Defenders...
This is a great song!
Judas priest never fail me :)
21 years old and I continue down the Rabbit hole of Judas Priest
Update: 23 years old now, own a few albums this one and Ram It Down, seen them live and plan to see them again this year.
It's good to know there's a whole new generation ready to carry the torch as us old metal heads get older each year that passes...
Put on sin after sin album and feast on that...then stained class .. then sad wings..
@@djglenhouse then live in the east
Never getting tired from this band ! 😘🚀🌍👍🏼
I love how that guitar sounds in the beginning. . So bad ass. Wish it was extended. Love this jam. Great song
I think any longer and it would take away from how emotional and heavy the bass kicks in
When The Night Comes Down is such a perfect composition ....
I want this played at my funeral...
This band will always be no.1.creaters of heavy metal...50 years. Rock on Judas Priest..🎸🎸🎸🎸
Judas total lo he visto mucho en directo y está entre los 5 mejores para mi
♪♫ When the night comes down. And you're all alone! ♪♫
Always has been a hauntingly beautiful song. Some good dreams and some bad dreams.
"and the nightmares begin..." Sung so well!
JUDAS PRIEST are the Defenders of the Faith ! Cheers from across the pond in the Rockies of Utah.🍻
Grew up in Provo. Saw the Screaming for Vengeance tour at the Salt Palace. Live in Oakland now.
For GLENN,COURAGE MAN,THE FLAME STILL HERE❤
Katatonia did a great cover of this song, what a monster of a song.
I must check that out
Just checked it out. Really good cover 🤘👍
When the night comes down! Awesome
When the night comes down
I'm here all alone
When the night comes down
There's nowhere to go..❤
I hope that someday I'll be able to type "90 and still listening to Judas Priest"
beautiful song!!
What a fantastic album
Judas priest 😍😍😍😍🤯🤯🤯
@James Bowling... Rob`s pivate life, his music is great!
@James Bowling I love his voice so much! Nothing personal.
a mistake - private - not "pivate"
Still my all time favorite artist
Best album ,they ever made
Holy shit they are the Steely Dan of metal. This is the best produced album I have ever heard!
❤Masterpiece ❤
Best JP ballad! 80' rules 🤟
Hands down my favorite Judas Priest song of all time so smooth and the vibes are amazing
When I tell folks i listen to 80s music THIS is what Im talmbout! \m/
I have not heard this song since probably 1987. But I never forgot the power ballad aspect. Hearing it just now- why did I ever sell those old Priest records! Looking forward to Halford Blues album. GET TO WORK ROB!
Great song from a great album! Shame they don't make 'em like this anymore!!😎🤘
IAN GILLAN, GEOFF TATE, ROB HALFORD the holy trinity of heavy metal.
heard a live version of this on my tv and it's so good
This was a big part of my early music. I cried like a faucet to this song years ago
What a huge lifetime classic this album !!
The light & shade of Judas Priest in their finest
This is a relaxing song, and it showed the greatest.
Lo escucho hoy después de unos meses , todo el álbum y sin duda el mejor álbum de JUDAS de todos los tiempos y de todos los álbunes del mundo 🌎🌍🌍🌍 entero...🎸🎸🎸✨🎵👌💯💯💯💯 X X X 💯💯💯💯 Heavy Metal. Larga vida JUDAS PRIEST , infinita..✨🌍🌍🌎🌎🎸🎸
Defenders is absolutely the best JP album. Every track is a masterpiece!
Masterpiece
Oh priest is still rocking in 2023!!
A legszebb lírai szám tőlük!
Great Priest tune one of my favorites.
Great song
I loved listening to this song on my cassette 😳 lying in my bed at night with my headphones on... The song is dark and perfect before going to sleep...🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿
Beautiful !
one of the 1st songs I learned to play- brings back some good memories
I grew up on this amazing music. My rock Gods
Such a great song 🤩🤩
Dude, Priest, you made me come back to the times when I began listening to metal music... This song has an amazing aura, Love you so Much and please if you can release the song Run of the Mill of the Rocka Rolla album. Keep on Rocking!!
U hit it with 'amazing aura'...so true
Run of the Mill give me goose bumps
Memories of metal nights to this song, among many others, but this one I remember travelling while drinking with friends. Still doing it at 50, only now I sing the way I always dreamt of and I''m kickin f ass after giving my all for 30 years to achieve it.
The Night , aftershave and cologne for men. "When the night comes down"
god I love this song
One of their best. Album is good all the way through
The best song about lost love ever made.
I still miss her...
Same, will cover this one on vocals and bass for her on what would have been our 4th anniversary.
I know the feeling, trust me
That intro still hits me. . . Reminds me how emptiness and nostalgia feels like
Underated song by JP.
Big time overrated!
@@ronaldpottle4238what ? 🤣🤣
Who's still listening in 2024
👇
Boom 💥
Me too. Momma loved Priest!!! May our Momma's rest in peace.
2025
Looks like I'm not the only one who likes this track. Night comes down and A Touch of Evil are my favorite Priest ballads
Got my own story to tell here. Around the time when I first heard this song, and the event happened that led to my discovery of it.
I was in my late teens and we had a family reunion where I had met several of my cousins for the first time.
One of my cousins who I thought was really cool gave me the impression that she didn't want to talk to me or to know me and would do anything to get away from me. She would just seemingly disappear the moment I entered the room.
It felt pretty bad because it made me think that she found me disgusting and repulsive yet she would happily hang out with everyone else.
I felt unwanted and then when she did it one more time, I disappeared out of there. I never wanted to see her again, so I left the interaction and disappeared somewhere where nobody could find me for several hours.
Around the same time as a teenage metal fan, I had discovered Judas Priest and had loved them but I had only just gotten the Defenders album. In my depressed state, I took my Walkman and put this album on to feel better. It felt good but when I got to this song, it was unlike anything I had heard and given the song is about being rejected and loneliness, it was as if the song knew what I was feeling and it was soothing that pain. It couldn't have come at a better time. It just cleansed me of everything and assured me that I would get through this. After I heard it, I was smiling again and feeling better.
At the next event, I didn't care about my cousin anymore and just carried on. She was there but I wasn't concerning myself with her presence.
Strangely enough, she then came up to me and started talking to me. I wasn't expecting anything but here she was now trying to talk with me. She then asked me where I went the day before for several hours. I then asked why she was so interested in that. She was like ''I noticed your absence and I was worried that you were feeling left out or unwanted by us. I want you to know that we really care about you and we want you with us''. I almost collapsed. It turned out that she wouldn't talk to me because she was very shy. Today we are now very close.
Every time I hear this song, it is a reminder of how I felt at the time and how I got through it.
The most raw outpouring of emotion on the album and that’s fucking saying something. Thank you Rob for enduring enough pain to render such a performance.
THIS IS THE BALLAD THAT MR. ROB HALFORD WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER ME. I LOVE YOU ROB.
In my 11,000-plus song collection there are some 100 songs I awarded a (subjective) score of 4 maximum stars. This is one of them. What an amazingly haunting atmosphere. And talk about laid-back drumming! Rob Halford does wonders with his voice here.
Boa música demais 🤘🤘🤘🤘!!!
Awesome song 👌👍
My favourite voice ❤
Bass goes hard on this song 🤘🏼Great album 🤘🏼🫡
Qué recuerdos tan fantásticos se vienen a mi mente al escuchar esta canción, gracias Judas Priest, crecí con tus canciones y me acompañaste durante casi toda mi vida
Fantastic album
chorus is magnificent.
Lo escuché con 15 años y me gusta cada vez más . Para mí gusto el mejor álbum de "JUDAS PRIEST" .. baladas perfectas.❤✨➕💯👌👌👌👌
underrated song from the ablum
100% this song is never talked about
Best Priest IMO incredible music this is!
Such a great album, Hail Priest
Любимый альбом 🤘🤘🤘
Same /,,/ !
согласен
I rediscovered this during the maw of the pandemic ….i started rucking in the Arizona desert heat in the middle of the day with a 30 lb weight and listened to this over and over and over ….
Love those opening riffs, among the most beautiful moments by this band!❤
THE GREATEST HEAVY METAL POWER BALLAD OF ALL TIME. THANK YOU MR. ROB HALFORD FOR BEING THERE IN THE WORST OF TIMES FOR ME. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I JUST WISH OUR FRIEND MR. RONNIE JAMES DIO WAS WITH US SO YOU GUYS COULD MAKE ANOTHER HEAR N AID CD TO HEAL THE WORLD IN PLACES WHERE THERE IS THE MOST SUFFERING. LOVE YOUR MR. ROB HALFORD. THE METAL GOD!
Number Priest Album ever, Ever.
100% perfect album. I even love side B which everyone else seems to shit on
Yes sir
fuck......... 56 and i still think this is the most BEAUTIFUL song
…. And I’m here all alone !! \m/
Bien ahí Judas!
By far there best album ever, this album made Judas Priest a top meat album band