Alice Cooper – Only Women Bleed

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  General Comment:It's rather a provocative song to me.

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  General Comment:Yes, on the surface these lyrics are about domestic abuse toward women. But do only wome bleed? No, everyone does. Maybe the man in the last verse finds life tough too but, he doesn’t show this physically; maybe he express himself physically on “his woman” (or not) hence the “come watch me bleed” a cry for attention. When Alice does this live in the last chorus he’ll sing “I (not he) drink and smoke and don’t come home at all”
  
  Reminds me of Waylon and Willie doing “Good Heart Woman” - in the last chorus “She loves ME (not him) in spite of my wicked ways that she don’t understand”
  
  For me this one’s more about failings, shortcomings and redemption in everyday life and relationships. We all spend our life through trying to please up or man or woman and everyone lives in love and pain while searching for that illusive “even break”. Naturally Alice puts a dramatic twist on these things.
  
  Musically the guitar and bass riff are pure class. The original Gun’s N’ Roses line-up often paid tribute to this tune in live shows as a set piece. When Axl entered with vocals sang a rearranged second verse: “Man lies right at you, He’s your life’s mistake, All your really looking for is an even break” Slash still occasionally works this riff into solo’s.

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  General Comment:This goes along with the recurring theme of poop on this album. In an interview, Alice said that the Nightmare in this album, is actually a bad poop episode. This song is about bloody diarrhea. He tries to convince himself that he's having his period, but in the back of his mind he knew that only women bleed. "You there, down on your knees, begging me please, come watch me bleed" means he's having an out-of-body experience because the episode is so bad. Pretty disgusting stuff if you look into the meanings of these songs.

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  I am making my own version of this song by ALICE COOPER "ONLY WOMEN BLEED" for a fund raiser for victims suffering from domestic violence and sexual assault... Right now I am singing over top of him but my own music and version will be done soon.. I am hoping to raise alot of money so women can get the therapy they need and heal from all their horrid abuse...
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  I am doing a fund raiser for women suffering from domestic abuse and sexual assault... So I am making my own version of his song which will be out soon and I will be singing it on stage to help raise money for the victims of this horrid abuse.. I have never sang in my life so give me a little slack lol.. ALICE COOPER IS AMAZING AND THIS SONG "ONLY WOMEN BLEED" is my inspiration to make this fundraiser work! Wish me luck!!
  
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  General Comment:I;m sorry if I was mean today. I have my period. :-(

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  General Comment:This song is about women who love men who abuse them..and still continue to allow it. My sister works for a battered womens shelter near L.A. and most are long time abused women who stayed with their "man" until they found the courage to leave and find a better life. Still, most go back to the guy who abused them in the first place or to someone else who will. For some, it is all they know....XLNT song about this weird phenomenon....

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  General Comment:Yes he is implying about the menstrating period as a metaphor. The very first line goes straight to the womans anatomy . Man got his woman to take his seed... Its also about abuse towards women! and in the 70s this was very common pratice. I literaly watched many of my friends moms get the shit knocked out of them by their dads. This also included my own house. Needless to say when my brother and I became old enough things changed in one night, one beating, and he never layed his hands on anyone in the house again!. Thats another story though. So as a little kid this song struck home and I think I speak for alot of people growing up back then and before. Hell, maybe it was Alice that brought attention to this problem to the mainstream. After all I can remeber hearing it on AM radio!

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  General Comment:this song is off the CONCEPT ALBUM 'Welcome To My Nightmare' it is about the main character's - Steven - abuse towards women

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  General Comment:AliceCooperChick: a wimpy prelude to a Nickleback song? Nickleback?? Isn't that the band with the frontman who sounds like he's constipated? The made-for-commercial-radio-to-play-25-times-a-day, sickly melodramatic, prefabricated-especially-for-the-35+-year-old-female-demographic band Nickleback? You mean THAT Nickleback?
  
  Anyhoo... one of AC's (many) best.

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    LMFAO I couldnt have said it better! SHE needs to change her name. She is not worthy!
    I hated that song so much that I almost felt sorry for men that abuse women! Then I caught myself! Thats what the power of the devil in commercial music cand do to you!

    Flag uhjigalion October 27, 2009  

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