Only Women Bleed

Words and music by Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin and Dick Wagner
From the album Welcome To My Nightmare (1975)
Transcribed by S.M.Harris

  NOTE: CAPO 3rd FRET
INTRO:

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        1. Man got his woman                to take his seed
        2. Man makes your hair grey,        he's your life's mistake

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           He got the power, oh             she got the need
           all your really lookin' for's    an even break

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           She spends her life through,     pleasin up her man
           He lies right at you,            you know you hate this
game

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           feeds him dinner or,             anything she can.
           Slaps you once 'n' a while and you live and love in pain.

BRIDGE:
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She cries alone at night too often   He smokes and drinks and don't
come
					        home at all.   Only
women

CHORUS:

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  bleed                 Only women bleed                 Only women

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  Ble______________________________ed.


INTERLUDE:
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 Black eyes       All of the time   don't spend a dime

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clean up the grime and you there      down on your knees

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 beggin' me please  to come watch me bleed!!!

BRIDGE:
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   bleed                 Only women bleed                 Only women

                                                                3
times
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  bleed                 Only women bleed                 Only women

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