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"Devour"
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	The High End of Low
Released	May 25, 2009
Recorded	March 2008–January 2009 in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California
Label	Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Producer	Marilyn Manson, Chris Vrenna, Twiggy Ramirez, Sean Beavan

"Devour" is the first track from the 2009 release The High End of Low. Former roommate of vocalist Marilyn Manson, Rudy Coby, explains that the song was written after an event where, "my room [was] covered in real blood—none of it my own—and I was driven to an emergency room for the first time in my life." "Devour" was described by Coby as the first song written for the album, "but certainly not the last casualty suffered in its creation."

Music details

A blog by Metal Hammer describes "Devour" as "a classic Manson-esque 'noise' track – super 8 running a loop or something. This [is] followed by a dulcet clean guitar strum up the neck, which sounds surprisingly gentle and serene – very un-Manson – more like the post-hardcore sounds if Isis or Russian Circles. When his voice joins the bass and guitars, it's back to the great old troubled tortured alien of Mechanical Animals – far superior and more earnest than the last album (what was it called again?). The refrain, "I will love you, if you let me" rings out before the heavy guitars and rocking drums hit the mix proper – but only after 3 minutes and only for 40 seconds. The track reaches its crescendo with the repeated phrase "I can't sleep, until I devour you" screamed over and over. This is the best Manson has been since New Shit from The Golden Age Of Grotesque."^[1]

Appearances

Albums

• The High End of Low

Versions

• "Devour" — Appears on The High End of Low

Lyrics

I'll swallow up all of you like a big bottle of big, big pills You're the one that I should never take But I can't sleep until I Devour you I can't sleep until I Devour you

Your flower's withering I can't feel your thorns in my head This is no impressionability

You're not crying, this is blood all over me You're not crying, this is blood all over me You're not crying, this is blood all over me

And I'll love you, if you let me And I'll love you, if you won't make me starve

You used to hold your heart in ---- I know I wish that I could close my eyes This is lowly with -----

I'll see you and I'll blow your heart to pieces I will blow your heart to pieces I will blow your heart to pieces I will blow your heart to pieces

And I'll love you, if you let me And I'll love you, if you won't make me starve

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself Pain's not ashamed to repeat itself Pain's not ashamed to repeat itself Pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

I can't sleep until I Devour you I can't sleep until I Devour you I can't sleep until I Devour you I can't sleep until I Devour you I can't sleep until I Devour you

And I'll love you, if you let me And I'll love you, if you won't make me starve

References

1. ↑ Marilyn Manson 'High End Of Low' Album Track-By-Track. Metal Hammer. April 7, 2009.