Lyrics to
A Bedtime Story

This version of A Bedtime Story was released by Alice Cooper in 1976.

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Lay still, steven, and I’ll tell you a bedtime story. I’ll tell you a
bedtime story that’s not for all children. It’s a very special story, that
only special children will understand. It’s a half aware story, and it will be
better if you close your eyes. It’s a story that takes place in a dream, like
other nightmares you have known. It’s a dream that Alice has dreamed. You can
dream along with him. You can follow Alice down the staircase, deep, down the
stairs to the pit where he doesn’t want to go, but he has to.

If you go to sleep now, Steven, you can go down the long and endless
staircase and sing sweet song to Alice and free him. And if you can’t get to
sleep, Steven and the middle of night you get out of bed, when everything is
quiet and the trees are still and the birds are hiding from the dark, you can
lay down on your bedroom floor and press your ear tightly to the boards. If
you listen very carefully you can hear Alice searching for a way out, forever
chasing rainbows.

Sleep tight, Steven. And have a good night.

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About Lyrics and A Bedtime Story by Alice Cooper

The lyrics to A Bedtime Story are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Alice Cooper used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to A Bedtime Story have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Alice Cooper and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to A Bedtime Story by Alice Cooper. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to A Bedtime Story" means the words set to the music of A Bedtime Story, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to A Bedtime Story and the lyrics to A Bedtime Story are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Bedtime Story, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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