Wind-Up Toy (song)

"Wind-Up Toy" is the twelfth and final track on heavy metal/shock rock musician Alice Cooper's nineteenth studio album "Hey Stoopid". Though the song was never released as a single, the song is very popular among Cooper's fans, often favourite above all others by some. Guitar player Joe Satriani makes a guest appearance on the track.

Relation to Steven

The track is the first confirmed appearance of fictional character/alter ego Steven in more than 15 years. In the song, we learn that he is imprisoned in a lunatic hospital and that his only friends are the insects, rats and his toys on the floor. This tells us that he still has the mind of a small child. Obviously it upset Steven to become an adult. The song possibly suggests something happened that forced him to be like an adult, before he was ready for it. It might be that his parents rejected him;

Daddy won't discuss me

What a state I must be

Mommy couldn't stand living with a wind-up toy

Steven feels that he never had the chance to be a young boy and that he grew up too fast. Because of this, he acts like a child and probably thinks that he still is one:

Preacher crucifies me

Warden wants to fry me

I was never young

Never just a little boy

It is also hinted that Steven still is haunted by the nightmare from Cooper's 1975 album "Welcome to My Nightmare", and possibly also the Curator from the album:

I'm lost in a nightmare

After the song ends, a little girl's voice can faintly be heard calling "Steven!"

Personnel

Releases on Albums

Hey Stoopid

Alice Cooper

Original band Vincent Furnier Glen Buxton Michael Bruce Dennis Dunaway Neal Smith Other personnel

Studio albums	Pretties for You Easy Action Love It to Death Killer School's Out Billion Dollar Babies Muscle of Love Welcome to My Nightmare Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Lace and Whiskey From the Inside Flush the Fashion Special Forces Zipper Catches Skin DaDa Constrictor Raise Your Fist and Yell Trash Hey Stoopid The Last Temptation Brutal Planet Dragontown The Eyes of Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds Along Came a Spider Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Live albums	The Alice Cooper Show A Fistful of Alice Brutally Live Live at Montreux 2005 Raise the Dead: Live from Wacken

Singles	"Reflected" "Shoe Salesman" "I'm Eighteen" "Caught in a Dream" "Under My Wheels" "Be My Lover" "School's Out" "Elected" "Hello Hooray" "No More Mr. Nice Guy" "Billion Dollar Babies" "Halo of Flies" "Teenage Lament '74" "Only Women Bleed" "Department of Youth" "Welcome to My Nightmare" "I Never Cry" "You and Me" "How You Gonna See Me Now" "Clones (We're All)" "7 and 7 Is" "I Am the Future" "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" "Teenage Frankenstein" "Freedom" "Poison" "Bed of Nails" "House of Fire" "Only My Heart Talkin'" "Hey Stoopid" "Love's a Loaded Gun" "Feed My Frankenstein" "Lost in America" "It's Me" "Brutal Planet" "Gimme" "Keepin' Halloween Alive" "I'll Bite Your Face Off"

Compilations and box sets	School Days: The Early Recordings Greatest Hits Prince of Darkness The Beast of Alice Cooper Science Fiction Classicks The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Super Hits Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper The Definitive Alice Cooper The Essentials: Alice Cooper Hell Is School's Out and Other Hits

Videography	Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper The Nightmare Welcome to My Nightmare Alice Cooper and Friends The Strange Case of Alice Cooper The Nightmare Returns Alice Cooper Trashes the World Brutally Live Live at Montreux 2005 Theatre of Death: Live at Hammersmith 2009 Super Duper Alice Cooper Raise the Dead: Live from Wacken

Tours	Welcome to My Nightmare Tour Theatre of Death Tour No More Mr. Nice Guy Tour Masters of Madness Tour

Related articles	Discography Filmography Steven Nights with Alice Cooper Solid Rock Foundation The Hollywood Vampires Hollywood Vampires (band)

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