If I Was Your Vampire
"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 acoustic guitar. From here the longest song on the album (6:01) concludes with an erotic rhythm dictated by Manson’s vocal performance.
On April 17, 2007 the song was uploaded to Manson's MySpace.
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Appearances
Albums
Versions
- If I Was Your Vampire — Appears on Eat Me, Drink Me.
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 European tour.
Manson was inspired to use the term 'Vampire' after watching The Hunger. a 1983 film starring David Bowie.
Lyrics
6am…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’ ‘I love you so much you must kill me now’ If I was your vampire Starting at the moon Instead of killing time Til the sun comes down If I was your vampire Death waits for no one Put my hands across your face Because I think our time has come Picking your smile apart with my spade tongue And the hole is where the heart is We built this tomb together I will fill it alone Alone again Everything’s black No turning back If I was your vampire Starting at the moon Instead of killing time Til the sun comes down If I was your vampire Death waits for no one Put 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 This is where it will end Because I’m blue again 6:19 and I know already Drive me off the mountain You’ll burn and I’ll eat your ashes No possible way of seducing a corpse If I was your vampire Starting at the moon Instead of killing time Til the sun comes down If I was your vampire Death waits for no one Put my hands across your face Because I think our time has come Alone again Everything’s black No turning back This is where it starts This is where it will end Because I’m blue again