Discover the story of the song > Brutal Planet Brutally Live – Alice Cooper

The lyrics of this song talk about how the world is a really bad and unpleasant place. The protagonist says that we're stuck here until we die and then we have to pay a price for it. They say that humans were born to die and we don't know why we exist. We live to enjoy ourselves but now that it's all over, there's nowhere to hide. The protagonist asks why his partner doesn't come down to this terrible world, but also says that from up in the sky, the world looks nice. They talk about all the bad things that happen on this planet - wars, hunger, poverty, child abuse, and even the Holocaust. The lyrics suggest that the world is a brutal and ugly place.