Only Women Bleed

Contrary to what many listeners believed, this is not about menstruation and it does not advocate domestic violence. Cooper is singing about how women bleed from the heart, mind and soul. Several feminist groups protested this song, but it is actually a sympathetic look at domestic abuse. It's a rare song where Cooper doesn't try to shock, but takes the side of the victim. Dick Wagner, who co-wrote the song with Cooper, told us: "It's really a song about domestic violence. It was misunderstood when it first came out. It was supposedly about a woman's period, but it wasn't. It was about a woman's subservient position in society to a man. I'm a firm believer that women are the superior sex. 'Only Women Bleed' was a liberating kind of song."

Alice Cooper and his guitarist Dick Wagner also wrote the ballads "You And Me" and "I Never Cry" together. Alice called this style "Heavy Metal Housewife Rock," and explained in an interview with Creem: "I did those songs totally out of spite. I kept reading so many interviews and articles that I said I was never considered musical. Best rock show they ever saw, but musically lacking. They kept saying I was a performer but didn't write anything. So I said, 'Oh yeah? Yeah? Wait till you hear this!'"

This ballad was a centerpiece of Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare tour, and his biggest hit from the album. Cooper performed the song with a single dancer, and it remained a part of his stage show for many of his concerts in the ensuing years. Alice told Mojo: "I didn't realize it would end up as a woman's anthem. I just needed a ballad for Welcome to my Nightmare."