If I Was Your Vampire

Song infobox
Name = If I Was Your Vampire


Artist = Marilyn Manson
Album = Eat Me, Drink Me
Released = April 16, 2007
Recorded = Hollywood, California, December 25, 2006
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 5:56
Writer = Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold
Label = Interscope
Producer = Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold
Tracks = #If I Was Your Vampire
#Putting Holes In Happiness
#The Red Carpet Grave
#They Said That Hell's Not Hot
#Just a Car Crash Away
#Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)
#Evidence
#Are You the Rabbit?
#Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery
#You and Me and the Devil Makes 3
#Eat Me, Drink Me

If I Was Your Vampire is the title of a song on Marilyn Manson's sixth studio album, "Eat Me, Drink Me". It is the first track on the album and also the longest at almost six minutes in length.

On April 16, 2007, Manson posted the song on his MySpace page along with the album's cover art. The song made its radio debut on UK station BBC Radio One during an interview with Manson along with the first single, "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)", from "Eat Me, Drink Me". An instrumental version was used in the teaser trailer for the film adaptation of the game, Max Payne.

Writing inspiration

Manson has also identified Armin Meiwes, a German cannibal who achieved international notoriety for eating and killing a voluntary victim he had found via the Internet, as inspirational in the titling of his album, Eat Me, Drink Me. Manson explained in an article what this story meant to him: "Although I can't relate to the relationship those two had, I found the story very compelling in a romantic way. I think a lot of people wouldn’t look at it as romantic, but it was to them in some sick way, and it is to me in some sick way, too."

The same German cannibal also inspired the German Neue Duetche Harte band Rammstein's controversial song "Mein Teil" (My Part, slang for My Penis or My Privates)