Editing If I Was Your Vampire

{{Song
| Name        = If I Was Your Vampire
| Cover       = Front cover.PNG
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
| Album       = [[Eat Me, Drink Me]]
| Released    = April 16, 2007
| Recorded    = December 25, 2006 in Hollywood, California
| Genre       = gothic rock, dark rock, industrial rock
| Length      = 5:56
| Label       = [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Tim Skold]]
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold
}}
"'''If I Was Your Vampire'''" is the first track on the 2007 release ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]''. The song was inspired by an experience in Manson's life where he was finally uplifted by a close friend's morbid gesture of devotion. "She picked up a butcher's knife and said, 'Here, you can stab me,'" he says. "When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore," said Manson. Manson has also called it "the new 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'. It's the all-time gothic anthem."

In an interview with ''Revolver'' magazine, Manson said, "It’s the centerpiece of the album, I woke up Christmas Day and wrote it. It's kind of my death wish fantasy."

== Music details ==
Begins with a slow and oppressive melody which leads into choruses that saturate the listener with the juxtaposition of screaming vocals against desolate guitar. From here just when one thinks the song is over it launches into an outro of the mid-section repeated.

On April 17, 2007 the song was uploaded to Manson's MySpace. 

== Appearances ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]''
* ''[[Bonus Track and Instrumentals from the Album Eat Me, Drink Me]]''

== Versions ==
* If I Was Your Vampire <small>— Appears on ''Eat Me, Drink Me''.</small>
* [[If I Was Your Vampire (Sam Fog Mix)]] <small>— Available with exclusive [[Hot Topic download card]].</small>
* If I Was Your Vampire (Instrumental) <small>— Appears on ''Bonus Track and Instrumentals from the Album "Eat Me, Drink Me"''.</small>

== Lyrics ==
     6 a.m. Christmas morning.
     No shadows,
     no reflections here.
     Lying cheek to cheek
     in your cold embrace
     
     So soft and so tragic
     as a slaughterhouse.
     You press the knife against your heart.
     And say that,
     "I love you, so much you must kill me now."
     And say that,
     I love you
     so much
     you must kill me now.
     
     If I was your vampire,
     Certain as the moon,
     instead of killing time, we'll have each other 
     until the sun.
     If I was your vampire
     death waits for no one.
     Hold my hands
     across your face,
     because I think
     our time has come.
     
     Digging your smile apart 
     with my spade tongue
     The hole is where the heart is.
     We built this tomb together,
     and I won't fill it alone.
     beyond the pale everything is black
     no turning back.
 
     If I was your vampire,
     Certain as the moon,
     instead of killing time,
     We'll have each other 
     until the sun.
     If I was your vampire
     death waits for no one.
     Hold my hands
     across your face,
     because I think
     our time has come.
     
     Blood-stained sheets
     in the shape of your heart,
     this is where it starts...
     Blood-stained sheets
     in the shape of your heart,
     this is where it starts.
     This is where it will end.
     Here comes the moon again.
     
     6:19 and I know I'm ready
     Drive me off the mountain.
     You'll burn, I'll eat your ashes
     The impossible wheels seducing
     our corpse
     
     If I was your vampire,
     Certain as the moon,
     instead of killing time, we'll have each other 
     until the sun.
     If I was your vampire
     death waits for no one.
     Hold my hands
     across your face,
     because I think
     our time has come.
     
     Beyond the pale
     everything is black
     no turning back.
     Beyond the pale
     everything is black
     No turning back.
     
     This is where it starts.
     This is where it will end.
     Here comes the moon again.
     
     This is where it starts.
     This is where it will end.
     Here comes the moon again.
     
     Here comes the moon again
     
     Here comes the moon again

== Trivia ==
* Manson stated at his April 2007 press conference in Paris that If I Was Your Vampire will be the opening song on the forthcoming [[Rape of the World Tour: Summer European Leg|European tour]].
* Manson was inspired to use the term 'Vampire' after watching The Hunger, a 1983 film starring [[David Bowie]].
* This is one of two songs Manson wrote on Christmas day, the other being "[[Into the Fire]]" two years later.
* The song's [[List of working titles for Marilyn Manson material|working title]] was "I'm Not Your Vampire".
* It can be heard in the trailers for the film ''Underworld: Rise of the Lycans'' and the film adaption of the video game ''Max Payne''. <!--*After the return of Twiggy this was the only song he learnt from the album ''Eat Me, Drink Me'', hence the lack of any songs from that album (with the exception of "If I Was Your Vampire" in 2009) after his return in 2008.-->

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