To me, this song sounds like it's from older drug days, and is about the sleepy sickness of those days. And the children screaming that know "my" name are an audience screaming for Aerosmith, but the band was fucked up and Steven Tyler couldn't even sing. Plus, depending on when the song was written, the band might have been all messed up with band members gone and whatnot. And as far as the "they'll scream forever, I know the pain" I think that refers to the emotional pain of the band being in such bad shape, and being on the edge of death and and Steven Tyler not being able to live out his dream because everything was going down the drain. :( sad song
To me, this song sounds like it's from older drug days, and is about the sleepy sickness of those days. And the children screaming that know "my" name are an audience screaming for Aerosmith, but the band was fucked up and Steven Tyler couldn't even sing. Plus, depending on when the song was written, the band might have been all messed up with band members gone and whatnot. And as far as the "they'll scream forever, I know the pain" I think that refers to the emotional pain of the band being in such bad shape, and being on the edge of death and and Steven Tyler not being able to live out his dream because everything was going down the drain. :( sad song