Welcome to my nightmare
I think you're gonna like it
I think you're gonna feel you belong
A nocturnal vacation
A necessary sedation
You wanna feel at home 'cause you belong
Welcome to my nightmare, whoa-whoa-oh
Welcome to my breakdown
I hope I didn't scare you
That's just the way we are when we come down
We sweat and laugh and scream here
'Cause life is just a dream here
You know inside you feel right at home here
You're welcome to my nightmare, yeah
Welcome to my nightmare
I think you're gonna like it
I think you're gonna feel you belong
We sweat and laugh and scream here
'Cause life is just a dream here
You know inside you feel right at home here
Welcome to my nightmare, ooh-ooh-ooh
Welcome to my breakdown
Yeah
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare Album Lyrics
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare Lyrics
Writer: Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Devils Food
Get ready for the lady she's gonna be a treat
Simmer slightly 'till ready make her soft too make her sweet
I kiss the tears off from your chest I felt the poison fright that's in your breath
I knew your precious life and I know your death
I squeeze the love out of your soul all the perfect love that's in your soul
You're just another spirit on parole you are devil's food
You are devil's food you are devil's food ah
Simmer slightly 'till ready make her soft too make her sweet
I kiss the tears off from your chest I felt the poison fright that's in your breath
I knew your precious life and I know your death
I squeeze the love out of your soul all the perfect love that's in your soul
You're just another spirit on parole you are devil's food
You are devil's food you are devil's food ah
Writer: KELLY JAY FORDHAM
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
The Black Widow
These words he speaks are true we're all humanary stew if we don't pledge allegiance to the black widow
The horror that he brings the horror of his sting the unholiest of kings the black widow
Our minds will be his toy and every girl and boy will learn to be employed by the black widow
Love me yes we love me love him yes we love him love me yes we love him ahahahaha
He sits upon this throne and picks at all the bones of his husbands and his wives he's devoured
He stares with a gleam with a laugh so obscene at the virgins and the children he's deflowered
Love me yes we love me love him yes we love him love me yes we love him ahahahaha
Our thoughts are hot and crazed our brains are webbed in haze of mindless senseless daze the black widow
'cos these speaks he says are true we're all humanary stew if we don't pledge allegiance to the black widow
The black widow
The horror that he brings the horror of his sting the unholiest of kings the black widow
Our minds will be his toy and every girl and boy will learn to be employed by the black widow
Love me yes we love me love him yes we love him love me yes we love him ahahahaha
He sits upon this throne and picks at all the bones of his husbands and his wives he's devoured
He stares with a gleam with a laugh so obscene at the virgins and the children he's deflowered
Love me yes we love me love him yes we love him love me yes we love him ahahahaha
Our thoughts are hot and crazed our brains are webbed in haze of mindless senseless daze the black widow
'cos these speaks he says are true we're all humanary stew if we don't pledge allegiance to the black widow
The black widow
Writer: ALICE COOPER, BOB EZRIN, DICK WAGNER
Copyright: Lyrics © SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP , Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP , Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Some Folks
Some folks love to see red some folks never talk about it
Some folks crave a blue lady some folks know and still they doubt it
I'm just no good without it I'm not a man at all it makes my skin crawl
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me now
Some folks love to feel pain some folks wake up every morning
Some folks live for no reason some folks die without a warning
I'm just no good without it I'm not a man at all it makes my skin crawl
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me save me
My my baby come on and save me now
I just can't live without it just can't live without it
I don't want to think about it don't want to think about it
I just can't live without it I just can't get it
I just can't I just can't no I just can't live no I I can't
I'm just no good without it I'm not a man at all it makes my skin crawl
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me save me
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me now
'cos I just can't live without it I just can't live without it
I don't wanna think about it I don't wanna think about it
No I just can't can't live without it I know I don't wanna think about it
I just can't live without I just can't I just can't no I can't
Some folks crave a blue lady some folks know and still they doubt it
I'm just no good without it I'm not a man at all it makes my skin crawl
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me now
Some folks love to feel pain some folks wake up every morning
Some folks live for no reason some folks die without a warning
I'm just no good without it I'm not a man at all it makes my skin crawl
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me save me
My my baby come on and save me now
I just can't live without it just can't live without it
I don't want to think about it don't want to think about it
I just can't live without it I just can't get it
I just can't I just can't no I just can't live no I I can't
I'm just no good without it I'm not a man at all it makes my skin crawl
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me save me
Baby baby come on and save me save me my my baby baby come on and save me now
'cos I just can't live without it I just can't live without it
I don't wanna think about it I don't wanna think about it
No I just can't can't live without it I know I don't wanna think about it
I just can't live without I just can't I just can't no I can't
Writer: ALICE COOPER, ROBERT ALAN EZRIN, ALAN GORDON
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management
Only Women Bleed
Man's got his woman to take his seed
He's got the power - oh
She's got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner or anything she can
She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Man makes your hair gray
He's your life's mistake
All you're really lookin' for is an even break
He lies right at you
You know you hate this game
He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain
She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Black eyes all of the time
Don't spend a dime
Clean up this grime
And you there down on your knees begging me please come
Watch me bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
He's got the power - oh
She's got the need
She spends her life through pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner or anything she can
She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Man makes your hair gray
He's your life's mistake
All you're really lookin' for is an even break
He lies right at you
You know you hate this game
He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain
She cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Black eyes all of the time
Don't spend a dime
Clean up this grime
And you there down on your knees begging me please come
Watch me bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Writer: RICHARD WAGNER, ALICE COOPER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Spirit Music Group
Department Of Youth
We're in trouble all the time you read about us all in the papers
We walk around and bump into walls a blind delegation yeah
And we ain't afraid of high power we're bullet proof
And we've never heard of Eisenhower missile power justice or truth
We're the department of youth your new department of youth
Aah ah we're the department of youth just me and youth
We talk about this whole stupid world and still come out laughing ha ha
We never make any sense but hell that never mattered
But we'll make it through our blackest hour we're living proof
And we've never heard of Billy Sunday Damon Runyon manners or Couth
We're the department of youth your new department of youth
Aah ah we're the department of youth just me and youth
We got department of youth the new department of youth
We got department of youth the new department of youth
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power who's got the power we
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power who's got the power we
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power we got the power yeah
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power who gave it to you
Donny Osmond what we got department of youth aah ah we got the power
We walk around and bump into walls a blind delegation yeah
And we ain't afraid of high power we're bullet proof
And we've never heard of Eisenhower missile power justice or truth
We're the department of youth your new department of youth
Aah ah we're the department of youth just me and youth
We talk about this whole stupid world and still come out laughing ha ha
We never make any sense but hell that never mattered
But we'll make it through our blackest hour we're living proof
And we've never heard of Billy Sunday Damon Runyon manners or Couth
We're the department of youth your new department of youth
Aah ah we're the department of youth just me and youth
We got department of youth the new department of youth
We got department of youth the new department of youth
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power who's got the power we
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power who's got the power we
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power we got the power yeah
We got department of youth aah ah we got the power who gave it to you
Donny Osmond what we got department of youth aah ah we got the power
Writer: ALICE COOPER, BOB EZRIN, DICK WAGNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Cold Ethyl
Yeah ooh oh one thing I miss is cold Ethyl and her skeleton kiss
We met last night making love by the refrigerator light
Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms
Ah one thing no lie Ethyl's frigid as an Eskimo pie
She's cool in bed she's gotta be 'cause Ethyl's dead
Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms
Come on cold Ethyl freeze me baby that's cool that's nice
One thing it's true cold Ethyl I am stuck on you
And everything is my way ethyl don't have much to say
Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms
Come here cold Ethyl what makes you so cold ooh so cold ooh ooh
Cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl
Cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl
If I live 'til ninety seven you'll still be waiting in refrigerator heaven
'cause you're cool you're ice cold Ethyl you're my paradise aah
We met last night making love by the refrigerator light
Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms
Ah one thing no lie Ethyl's frigid as an Eskimo pie
She's cool in bed she's gotta be 'cause Ethyl's dead
Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms
Come on cold Ethyl freeze me baby that's cool that's nice
One thing it's true cold Ethyl I am stuck on you
And everything is my way ethyl don't have much to say
Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms
Come here cold Ethyl what makes you so cold ooh so cold ooh ooh
Cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl
Cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl cold Ethyl cold cold Ethyl
If I live 'til ninety seven you'll still be waiting in refrigerator heaven
'cause you're cool you're ice cold Ethyl you're my paradise aah
Writer: ALICE COOPER, ROBERT EZRIN
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Years Ago
Here I go again up and down alone all my friends went home years ago
All my toys are broken and so am I inside mom the carnival has closed years ago ooh
I'm a little boy no I'm a great big man no let's be a little boy
For a little while longer maybe an hour no Steven we have to go back now
Isn't that our mom calling Steven Steven Steven come home Steven come home
All my toys are broken and so am I inside mom the carnival has closed years ago ooh
I'm a little boy no I'm a great big man no let's be a little boy
For a little while longer maybe an hour no Steven we have to go back now
Isn't that our mom calling Steven Steven Steven come home Steven come home
Writer: COOPER, WAGNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Spirit Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Spirit Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
Steven
I don't want to see you go I don't even want to be there
I will cover up my eyes and pray it goes away
You've only lived a minute of your life I must be dreaming please stop screaming
I don't like to hear you cry you just don't know how deep that cuts me
So I will cover up my eyes and it will go away
You've only lived a minute of your life I must be dreaming please stop screaming
Steven Steven I hear my name Steven is someone calling me I hear my name
Steven that icy breath it whispers screams of pain
I don't want to feel you die but if that's the way that god has planned you
I'll put pennies on your eyes and it will go away see
You've only lived a minute of your life I must be dreaming
Steven is someone calling me no Steven I think I hear a voice it's outside the door
Steven I hear my name Steven is someone calling me I hear my name
Steven what do you want Steven what do you want what do you want what do you want
Steven Steven Steven I hear my name
I will cover up my eyes and pray it goes away
You've only lived a minute of your life I must be dreaming please stop screaming
I don't like to hear you cry you just don't know how deep that cuts me
So I will cover up my eyes and it will go away
You've only lived a minute of your life I must be dreaming please stop screaming
Steven Steven I hear my name Steven is someone calling me I hear my name
Steven that icy breath it whispers screams of pain
I don't want to feel you die but if that's the way that god has planned you
I'll put pennies on your eyes and it will go away see
You've only lived a minute of your life I must be dreaming
Steven is someone calling me no Steven I think I hear a voice it's outside the door
Steven I hear my name Steven is someone calling me I hear my name
Steven what do you want Steven what do you want what do you want what do you want
Steven Steven Steven I hear my name
Writer: ALICE COOPER, BOB EZRIN
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
The Awakening
I wake up in the basement I'm so hungry I'm dry
I must be here sleepwalking mustn't I
Getting up from my easy chair looking for my wife
Following a trial of crimson spots that lead into the night
Suddenly I realize I see it all through real eyes
These crimson spots are dripping from my hand
And oh it makes me feel like a man
I must be here sleepwalking mustn't I
Getting up from my easy chair looking for my wife
Following a trial of crimson spots that lead into the night
Suddenly I realize I see it all through real eyes
These crimson spots are dripping from my hand
And oh it makes me feel like a man
Writer: COOPER, EZRIN, WAGNER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Escape
Paint on my cruel or happy face and hide me behind it
It takes me inside another place where no one can find it
Escape I get out when I can I escape anytime I can
It's all escape I'm crying in my beer come on let's escape just get me out of here
Don't get me wrong don't get me right I'm not like you are
When I get home from work at night I'm blacker and bluer
So I escape I get out when I can escape anytime I can
It's all escape I'm crying in my beer escape just get me out of here
But where am I running to there's no place to go
Just put on my make up and get me to the show yeah escape
Yeah what are you waitin' for
My doctor said just come around you'll be taken care of
And in while he ran my problems down I stole his mascara
That's how I escape I get out when I can I escape anytime I can
I escape I'm crying in my beer it's escape just get me out of here
Escape let's get out while we can it's escape anywhere we can
Come on it's escape nobody wants us around here anyway
Escape what are you waitin' for escape escape I escape
Come on darling let's escape escape escape escape escape
I gotta get out of here I gotta get out of here I gotta get out of here
It takes me inside another place where no one can find it
Escape I get out when I can I escape anytime I can
It's all escape I'm crying in my beer come on let's escape just get me out of here
Don't get me wrong don't get me right I'm not like you are
When I get home from work at night I'm blacker and bluer
So I escape I get out when I can escape anytime I can
It's all escape I'm crying in my beer escape just get me out of here
But where am I running to there's no place to go
Just put on my make up and get me to the show yeah escape
Yeah what are you waitin' for
My doctor said just come around you'll be taken care of
And in while he ran my problems down I stole his mascara
That's how I escape I get out when I can I escape anytime I can
I escape I'm crying in my beer it's escape just get me out of here
Escape let's get out while we can it's escape anywhere we can
Come on it's escape nobody wants us around here anyway
Escape what are you waitin' for escape escape I escape
Come on darling let's escape escape escape escape escape
I gotta get out of here I gotta get out of here I gotta get out of here
Writer: ALICE COOPER, KIM VINCENT FOWLEY, C. MARK ANTHONY
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Welcome to My Nightmare is the debut solo studio album and eighth overall studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975. It is his only album for the Atlantic Records label in North America; in the rest of the world, it was released on the ABC subsidiary Anchor Records (also his only album for that label). Welcome to My Nightmare is a concept album. Played in sequence, the songs form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven. The album inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special, a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and his Welcome to My Nightmare concert film in 1976. The ensuing tour was one of the most over-the-top excursions of that era. Most of Lou Reed's band joined Cooper for this record.
The cover artwork was created by Drew Struzan for Pacific Eye & Ear. Rolling Stone would later rank it ninetieth on the list of the "Top 100 Album Covers of All Time". Famed horror film star Vincent Price provided a monologue in the song "Devil's Food". The original version of "Escape" was recorded by the Hollywood Stars for their shelved 1974 studio album Shine Like a Radio, which was finally released in 2013. The ballad "Only Women Bleed", released as a single, is a song originally composed by guitarist Dick Wagner for his late-1960s band the Frost, with a new title provided by Cooper and revised lyrics written by Wagner and Cooper. The song "Escape" was a rewrite of a song by the Hollywood Stars from the album Shine Like a Radio - The Great Lost 1974 Album. The remastered CD version adds three alternate version bonus tracks.
A sequel concept album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, was released in 2011.
Genre(s):
Hard rock, glam rock The cover artwork was created by Drew Struzan for Pacific Eye & Ear. Rolling Stone would later rank it ninetieth on the list of the "Top 100 Album Covers of All Time". Famed horror film star Vincent Price provided a monologue in the song "Devil's Food". The original version of "Escape" was recorded by the Hollywood Stars for their shelved 1974 studio album Shine Like a Radio, which was finally released in 2013. The ballad "Only Women Bleed", released as a single, is a song originally composed by guitarist Dick Wagner for his late-1960s band the Frost, with a new title provided by Cooper and revised lyrics written by Wagner and Cooper. The song "Escape" was a rewrite of a song by the Hollywood Stars from the album Shine Like a Radio - The Great Lost 1974 Album. The remastered CD version adds three alternate version bonus tracks.
A sequel concept album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, was released in 2011.
Producer(s): Bob Ezrin
Length: 43:19
Released: February 28th, 1975
Year: 1975