The ballad
'Hell Is Living Without You' is the penultimate song on the album. It's a decent pop-metal song with some weird effects on the vocals. It also has a strange atmosphere to it
Alice Cooper - Vocals
John McCurry - Guitar
Hugh McDonald - Bass
Bobby Chouinard - Drums
Alan St. John - Keyboards
Special guests on this song were
Richie Sambora - Guitar
Steve Lukather - Guitar
The co-writers are Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora
09/10 – Hell Is Living Without You (Cooper, Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child)
"I can't find your face in a thousand masqueraders
You're hidden in the colors of a million other lost charaders
In life's big parade
I'm the loneliest spectator
'Cause you're gone without a trace in a sea of faceless imitators
I can't take another night
Burning inside this...
Hell is living without your...
Love ain't nothin' without your...
Touch me, heaven would be like...
Hell is living without you
Try to walk away when I see the time I've wasted
Starving at a feast and all this wine I've never tasted
On my lips your memory has been stained
Is it all in vain
Tell me who's to blame
I can't take another night
Burning inside this
Hell is living without your...
Love ain't nothin' without your...
Touch me, heaven would be like...
Hell is living without you
Nights get longer and colder
I'm down and begging to hold ya
On my own and I feel like...
Hell is living without you
(Living without you)
Living without you...
Hell is living without your...
Love ain't nothin' without your...
Touch me, heaven would be like...
Hell is living without you
Nights get longer and colder
I'm down begging to hold ya
On my own and I feel like
Hell is living without you
Ahhh"
Musically, the final track on the album,
'I'm Your Gun', is a good, fast paced rocker. What lets it down, however, are the lyrics again. The 14 year old metalhead who wrote 'Bed Of Nails' must have just seen his first copy of Mayfair magazine and, as a result, he came up with:
"Pull my trigger, I get bigger, Then I'm lots of fun
I'm your gun
Bite my bullet, Push and pull it, Tell me I'm the one
I'm your gun
Squeeze it tighter, Aim and fire, yeah
Hold on steady, always ready, yeah, yeah, yeah
Rub my barrel, Straight and narrow
Dress up like a nun, n-n-n-nun
I'm your gun
Load my clip and lick your lips, This is gettin' fun
I'm your gun
Hold on steady (Hold on)
Always ready, yeah"
It's a joke, right? It cannot be a serious attempt at songwriting
Alice Cooper - Vocals
John McCurry - Guitar
Hugh McDonald - Bass
Bobby Chouinard - Drums
Alan St. John - Keyboards
10/10 – I'm Your Gun (Cooper, McCurry, Child)
"[Spoken] Your momma thinks I'l filthy (all right)
Your daddy thinks I'm scum (all right)
Wrap your fingers all around me, I'm your g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-gun....
Well...
I'm dressed in black
I'm a heart attack
And my draw is lightning quick
If you're looking for a man with magic hands
I can really do the trick
And if you see me on the street
And you're burnin' from the heat
There's a fire down below
You be the target on the bed
I'll be shootin' hot lead
Let me take control
You're a scared little girl in this big, bad town
(You.......... need............. some............... one)
So easy to sink, so easy to drown
(Who will be strong)
Pull my trigger, I get bigger
Then I'm lots of fun
I'm your gun
I'm your gun, gun, gun
Bite my bullet
Push an' pull it
Tell me I'm the one
I'm your gun
I'm your gun, gun, gun
Hold on steady, always ready, yeah
Well, I'm as hard as they come
I'm a hit and run
I'm a pistol packin' boy
Better walk real slow
I'm on the edge, y'know
And I'm easily annoyed
If something's giving you trouble
I'll be there on the double
Just call me on the line
I've got a muscle I can flex
It'll fog your little specs
Till you think you're going blind
I know these streets like the scars on my back
(You.......... need............. some............... one)
And I stay as loaded as this gun on my back
(Who..........will................. be.....................strong)
Pull my trigger, I get bigger
Then I'm lots of fun
I'm your gun
I'm your gun, gun, gun
Bite my bullet
Push and pull it
Tell me I'm the one
I'm your gun
I'm your gun, gun, gun
Squeeze it tighter
Aim and fire, yeah
Hold on steady, always ready,
yeah, yeah, yeah
Pull my trigger, I get bigger
Then I'm lots of fun
I'm your gun
I'm your gun, gun, gun
Rub my barrel
Straight and narrow
Dress up like a nun, n-n-n-nun
I'm your gun
Your gun, gun, gun
Load my clip and lick your lips
This is gettin' fun
I'm your gun
I'm your gun, gun, gun
Hold on steady (Hold on)
Always ready, yeah"
The tour for the album was 'Alice Cooper Trashes The World' and, surprisingly, it was the first time he toured in Japan
Although it was reported in Kerrang that ex-Kiss guitarist Mark St. John would be joining the band for the tour, it didn't happen. It has also been suggested that Alice wanted Steve Vai, but due to prior commitments (Vai was with Whitesnake at the time) this also failed to happen. As a result, the touring band consisted of:
Alice Cooper - Vocals
Al Pitrelli - guitar
Pete Friesen - guitar
Tommy 'T-Bone' Carradona - bass
Jonathan Mover - drums
Derek Sherinian - keyboards
The tour began with a small warm-up show on Nov 23rd, 1989 at London's Marquee Club. To get into this show, fans had to collect rubbish from the streets of London in special 'Trash' black bin liners and hand them in before they could pay to get in. The setlist for this concert, which lasted barely an hour was:
- Trash
- Billion Dollar Babies
- I'm Eighteen
- I'm Your Gun
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- This Maniac's In Love With You
- Muscle of Love
- Spark in the Dark
- House Of Fire
- Poison
- School's Out
- Under My Wheels
- Cold Ethyl
Further UK dates were played between December 5th - December 14th 1989, and were at Glasgow, Belfast, Newcastle, Wembley and Birmingham. Support came from Great White and Britney Fox.
The basic setlist for this tour was:
- Hello Hooray tape
- Trash
- Billion Dollar Babies
- I'm Eighteen
- I'm Your Gun
- Desperado
- House of Fire
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- This Maniac's In Love With You
- Steven
- Welcome to My Nightmare
- Ballad of Dwight Fry
- Gutter Cat versus the Jets
- Only Women Bleed
- I Love the Dead
- Guitar Solo
- Poison
- Muscle of Love
- Spark in the Dark
- Bed of Nails
- School' Out
- Under My Wheels
There was a video release of 'Alice Cooper Trashes The World', recorded at the shows at the Birmingham NEC on Dec 13th (concert) and Dec 14th (cutaways and audience shots). It's entertaining, but it's certainly not one of the best Alice Cooper concert videos