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.

Appearances

Albums

• Eat Me, Drink Me

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