If I Was Your Vampire
"If I Was Your Vampire" | ||
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Song by 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 | |
Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
Composer | Tim Skold | |
Producer | Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold | |
External links | Search ISRC Search at Musicstax |
"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[edit]
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 16, 2007 the song was uploaded to Manson's MySpace.
Appearances[edit]
Albums[edit]
Versions[edit]
- If I Was Your Vampire — Appears on Eat Me, Drink Me.
- If I Was Your Vampire (Sam Fog Mix) — Available with exclusive Hot Topic download card.
- If I Was Your Vampire (Instrumental) — Appears on Bonus Track and Instrumentals from the Album "Eat Me, Drink Me".
Lyrics[edit]
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[edit]
- 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.
- This is one of two songs Manson wrote on Christmas day, the other being "Into the Fire" two years later.
- The song's 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.