"Gimme" is a single by rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 singer Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

, released in 2000.

The song appeared on Cooper's album Brutal Planet

Brutal Planet

Brutal Planet is the 21st studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2000. Lyrically, it's a Concept Album that deals with themes of dark "social fiction", including domestic violence , Prejudice , War and school shootings...

, and was its first and only single. While its highest chart position was only 103 in the UK the music video was aired several times. The song was written by Cooper and Bob Marlette.

The song is sung from the point of view of Satan

Satan

Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible...

. This is a recurring theme for Cooper, and a motif he uses in songs like "I'm The Coolest" from 1976's Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell is the ninth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1976. A sequel to Welcome to My Nightmare, this concept album was written almost exclusively by Cooper with guitar player Dick Wagner and producer Bob Ezrin....

 and "I Just Wanna Be God" on Dragontown

Dragontown

Dragontown is the 22nd studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2001. Like Brutal Planet, the album displays a heavier style than many of his previous releases...

, the follow-up album to Brutal Planet

Brutal Planet

Brutal Planet is the 21st studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2000. Lyrically, it's a Concept Album that deals with themes of dark "social fiction", including domestic violence , Prejudice , War and school shootings...

. The lyrics also make a reference to "Nothing's Free" from The Last Temptation, another song with the same theme.

Album appearances

• Brutal Planet
  Brutal Planet
  Brutal Planet is the 21st studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2000. Lyrically, it's a Concept Album that deals with themes of dark "social fiction", including domestic violence , Prejudice , War and school shootings...
  
  
• Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
  Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
  Brutally Live is a live concert DVD by Alice Cooper. It was originally released in 2000 on DVD, and re-released in 2003 on DVD accompanied with an audio CD of an edited version of the DVD's soundtrack....
  
  
• Live at Montreux 2005

Personnel

• Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
   - Vocals
• Ryan Roxie
  Ryan Roxie
  Ryan Roxie Ryan Roxie Ryan Roxie (born in Sacramento, California, December 1, 1965 is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter currently residing in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the founding member of Roxie 77 and probably most well known for his guitar work with Alice Cooper, Slash, Casablanca, Dad's...
  
   - Guitar
• Phil X
  Phil X
  Philip Xenidis, better known as Phil X , is a Greek-born guitarist and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based turbo pop band Powder. He also has a second band, the Drills. He is best known as the guitarist who replaced Rik Emmett in the Canadian rock band Triumph, for the Edge of Excess album and tour...
  
   - Guitar
• China - Guitar
• Eric Singer
  Eric Singer
  Eric Doyle Mensinger , better known as Eric Singer, is a hard rock and heavy metal drummer for the rock band Kiss and formerly for singer Alice Cooper...
  
  - Drums
• Bob Marlette - Rhythm guitar, Bass, Keyboards

Charts

Year	Chart	Peak Chart Position
2000	UK Singles Chart	103