Steven is hating his nightmares and want to get out of them. He tells us about what he passed through the album. He thinks he is dreaming and wants to wake up, but the choir tells him that this is no nightmare, because he is dead, so this is problably hell. Steven does not believe the choir, although he mentioned earlier "I don`t know why I'm here, why I've fallen from grace / I can't explain the burns, or the scars on my face" so he probably died and don't accept it or he died and didn't knew about it.
When Steven died? Certainly at "A Runaway Train", in the end of the song he mentioned that his body hurt and that he is "sleepin' in the graveyard" and you can clearly hear a huge crash in the coda. Also, in this song he starts to tell his journey by the episode of the train, saying: "Well first I finally passed out, then I woke up in pain / Tangled in the wreckage of a runaway train". IMO, he thinks that the runaway train was a nightmare, since he start to complain about his nightmares by this point of his journey, but it really happened and he died at that point, even though he did not notice this or didn't accept it (If he didn't accept it, maybe it's because death is a "eternal sleep" which would mean that he is going to a "eternal nightmare")
The last song of the album, an instrumental named "The Underture", shows the themes of songs from both the first and second Nightmare albums (A lot like the Quadrophenia instrumentals), which could serve as a credit scene song (I can imagine that) or that the nightmare continues (I hope for that).
I think that this album is really good, not as the first one, of course, but good anyways. My biggest complain is that it takes three songs just to Steven get in the nightmares, not like the 1975 which starts in the nightmare and we have to listen / discover how Steven got stuck up there.
@ChubbyBaby you're spot on, but there's one thing I'd like to add. The vinyl version of the album comes with an additional track on side four, called "Flatline". This track is just 3 minutes of a heart monitor beeping, before it flatlines. I believe that this is meant to confirm that Steven has died. Since Alice's next album isn't a concept album, and since he's getting old and probably doesn't have that many albums left in him, I think that the Welcome 2 My Nightmare album may be the last we'll ever see of Steven, and that it ends his...
@ChubbyBaby you're spot on, but there's one thing I'd like to add. The vinyl version of the album comes with an additional track on side four, called "Flatline". This track is just 3 minutes of a heart monitor beeping, before it flatlines. I believe that this is meant to confirm that Steven has died. Since Alice's next album isn't a concept album, and since he's getting old and probably doesn't have that many albums left in him, I think that the Welcome 2 My Nightmare album may be the last we'll ever see of Steven, and that it ends his story arch. All that's left is to connect the pieces scattered throughout Welcome To My Nightmare, Goes To Hell, Hey Stoopid, The Last Temptation, Along Came A Spider, and Welcome 2 My Nightmare and figure out how it all fits together.
Steven is hating his nightmares and want to get out of them. He tells us about what he passed through the album. He thinks he is dreaming and wants to wake up, but the choir tells him that this is no nightmare, because he is dead, so this is problably hell. Steven does not believe the choir, although he mentioned earlier "I don`t know why I'm here, why I've fallen from grace / I can't explain the burns, or the scars on my face" so he probably died and don't accept it or he died and didn't knew about it.
When Steven died? Certainly at "A Runaway Train", in the end of the song he mentioned that his body hurt and that he is "sleepin' in the graveyard" and you can clearly hear a huge crash in the coda. Also, in this song he starts to tell his journey by the episode of the train, saying: "Well first I finally passed out, then I woke up in pain / Tangled in the wreckage of a runaway train". IMO, he thinks that the runaway train was a nightmare, since he start to complain about his nightmares by this point of his journey, but it really happened and he died at that point, even though he did not notice this or didn't accept it (If he didn't accept it, maybe it's because death is a "eternal sleep" which would mean that he is going to a "eternal nightmare")
The last song of the album, an instrumental named "The Underture", shows the themes of songs from both the first and second Nightmare albums (A lot like the Quadrophenia instrumentals), which could serve as a credit scene song (I can imagine that) or that the nightmare continues (I hope for that).
I think that this album is really good, not as the first one, of course, but good anyways. My biggest complain is that it takes three songs just to Steven get in the nightmares, not like the 1975 which starts in the nightmare and we have to listen / discover how Steven got stuck up there.
@ChubbyBaby you're spot on, but there's one thing I'd like to add. The vinyl version of the album comes with an additional track on side four, called "Flatline". This track is just 3 minutes of a heart monitor beeping, before it flatlines. I believe that this is meant to confirm that Steven has died. Since Alice's next album isn't a concept album, and since he's getting old and probably doesn't have that many albums left in him, I think that the Welcome 2 My Nightmare album may be the last we'll ever see of Steven, and that it ends his...
@ChubbyBaby you're spot on, but there's one thing I'd like to add. The vinyl version of the album comes with an additional track on side four, called "Flatline". This track is just 3 minutes of a heart monitor beeping, before it flatlines. I believe that this is meant to confirm that Steven has died. Since Alice's next album isn't a concept album, and since he's getting old and probably doesn't have that many albums left in him, I think that the Welcome 2 My Nightmare album may be the last we'll ever see of Steven, and that it ends his story arch. All that's left is to connect the pieces scattered throughout Welcome To My Nightmare, Goes To Hell, Hey Stoopid, The Last Temptation, Along Came A Spider, and Welcome 2 My Nightmare and figure out how it all fits together.