Welcome To My Nightmare

The whole "Welcome to my Nightmare" album is a story about Steven. The start of the story is Steven beginning his nightmare, "Welcome to my Nightmare." The nightmare begins with Steven caught in a spider's web were he believes he must obey the black widow to survive, "The Black Widow." Then in "Some Folks" Steven talks about his love for murdering women and their dead corpses. He then sings about abusing his wife in "Only Women Bleed" which leads to him dreaming of having sex with a female corpse, "Cold Ethyl." He reveals that he had a bad childhood and refuses to be a man in "Years Ago." He goes on a rampage from his lost innocence, unknowingly murdering his wife while sleep walking hearing her scream his name,STEVEN! in "Steven." He awakens and finds out that he has murdered his wife when he sees the blood stains on his hands in "The Awakening." As a result of realizing that it was no dream and that he killed his wife he tries to escape with alcohol in "Escape." He returns in other songs like, "Wing Up Toy" where he admits that he believes he is still a child and is lost in a nightmare.

wow... no one has commented. well, I really like this song and listen to it when I am angry at people lol

this is an awesome song and should be required to be listened too. Alice Rocks!!!

Alice Cooper's first solo song after the band Alice Cooper disolved.

this song is the start of the album which is a concept album...the title says it all....the album is based on "steven" and a nightmare he goes through, alice plays steven and on the album from a 3rd person viewpoint and only rarely refers to himself as steven...( also vincent price is on this song) it's a good song and an amazing album

haha after me and a girl fell out big time!i sent her an email sayin welcome 2 my nightmare welcome 2 my breakdown n different lines lyk that n it scared tha hell outta her!

i see this of like a tango/vampire/bluesy/emoesque/jazz dance.... very trancy...woo wel i did a dance like that..... the vampire body control from waking up on a bed lol like a little less 16 candles... but classy with alice.... even thought emo childs helped me create it XD

Thanks, Alice. Sorry to be so decades-slow on the uptake, but I never realized this album had quite such a dark concept behind it. I'll listen to it with greater respect (not to mention pleasure) from now on. Well done, sir!

I think the song is about drug withdrawlal in a psych center. He thinks he deserves the symptoms of his withdrawl, but also his nightmare.

I made up a play list of songs that could have been in a Darren Shan, the character, story, and I put this song on it. He's friends with a guy named Steve, who has probably been called Steven, although he has never mentioned it. He's basically telling anyone who is reading his story "Welcome to my nightmare. There are vampires there, but they aren't what you heard about in other media. We have enemies called the vampaneze who are responsible for those crap myths you heard about in the other vampire media". Beware. If you get scared easily, then find another boo to read that isn't scary".