When Hell Comes Home (song)

"When Hell Comes Home" is the eleventh track on Welcome 2 My Nightmare. This song was one of three that the original Alice Cooper band performed on (the others being "I'll Bite Your Face Off" and "A Runaway Train") to give it a classic rock feel. The darker tone of the track helped to balance the more comical previous songs (such as "Ghouls Gone Wild" and "Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever").

The song shows a young boy (Steven) being raised by a violent, alcoholic father and an abused mother. Original guitarist Michael Bruce originally wrote the song from the father's perspective for his own planned album The Dark Side of Love. The original title by Bruce was "Hell Hole #9".