"Scream Like a Baby" is a song written and performed by David Bowie.
The song focuses on a protagonist called Sam who is evidently being held, along with the track's narrator, in a political prison.
[1] Musically the song is noted for its "ultra-modern new wave guitar/synth sound",[1] as well as for Bowie's use of varispeed vocals to illustrate Sam's downward spiral in the prison hospital – according to NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray, the effect is "as if the narrator of 'All the Madmen' inhabited the world of '1984'".
[2] "Scream Like a Baby" was one of several tracks on Scary Monsters that evolved from pieces Bowie had written years before.
It was originally composed in 1973, with different lyrics, as "I Am a Laser" for The Astronettes (Ava Cherry, Geoffrey MacCormack and Jason Guess).