Lyric discussion by monkeyfishfrog 

Cover art for Pain lyrics by Alice Cooper

I was 13 when the album Flush the Fashion came out and my brother bought it. It was the first I'd ever heard of Alice Cooper and it became one of those records that I'd fall back on when I got sick of whatever else I was listening to.

Talk Talk, Clones and this song will always be the essential Alice Cooper in my mind, especially this one. Pain, along with Steven and The Awakening from Welcome to my Nightmare, fed to my early teen brain exactly the sort of scary lyrical imagery it craved.

Overall, not a slavish fan, but he had some great songs and this was one of em.