Only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud.
So good I can't believe it, screaming with the crowd.
Don't sweat it, we'll get it back to you.
Don't sweat it, we'll get it back to you.
Overkill, overkill, overkill

On your feet you feel the beat, it goes straight to your spine.
Shake your head you must be dead if it don't make you fly.
Don't sweat it, we'll get it back to you.
Don't sweat it, we'll get it back to you.
Overkill, overkill, overkill

Know your body's made to move, ya feel it in your guts.
Rock 'n' roll ain't worth the name if it don't make a strut.
Don't sweat it, we'll get it back to you.
Don't sweat it, we'll get it back to you.
Overkill, overkill, overkill


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Overkill Lyrics as written by Ian Kilmister Edward Alan Clarke

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    Jaymz kinda messed up a little on the last verse

    King Nothingon April 24, 2002   Link
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    Jaymz kinda messed up simply doing this song cuz its terrible. the garage days cd sucked, but disk 2 kicks ass.

    the King of shiton February 12, 2005   Link
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    The song rules!!! wanker

    Anti-Punkon December 23, 2005   Link
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    bad cover.

    your only ever gonna hear this song at its greatest live and by motorhead themselves

    123123123123on February 18, 2006   Link
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    The last verse sounds like he's just mumbling cuz he forgot the lines, like "hmm, huhmm, hmm, Overkill!"

    Narcoleptic Birdon April 12, 2007   Link

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