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Rating: Sixth studio album for Marilyn Manson who, through a rather sad period of his life (the separation from ex-wife, burlesque queen Dita Von Teese), retreats with multi-instrumentalist Tim Skold, to create his most intimate and personal work.
"Eat Me, Drink Me," is the chosen title for the album, and this time the sound is more rock but also strongly influenced by glam and gothic.
Cannibalism and vampirism are just some of the themes Manson drew inspiration from for the creation of the work. On the cover of the same, we can find a more fragile and introspective Manson in a pose similar to that of Christ in the famous fresco of the "Last Supper," depicted when he said "eat me, drink me" creating the rite of the Eucharist. The literary work that most influences the album is "Alice in Wonderland," and the title is a clear allusion to this work as well.
Alice indeed ate cookies labeled "Eat me" to become a giant, while she drank small bottles labeled "Drink Me" to shrink.
The idea driving the album is rebirth, redemption, romance, and personal transformation. Manson uses the vampire metaphor to symbolize the emotional state he is in, feeling vulnerable and in need of the vital nymph from the people around him, yet at the same time longing for love, an aspiration he cannot fulfill because, just like the vampire, he always ends up "consuming" the people he cares about most.
Evan Rachel Wood, the girlfriend with whom Manson consoles himself after the divorce from Dita Von Teese, becomes the "Lolita" in the album's concept. In fact, the comparison with Nabokov's novel is not a casual one, as "Lolita" is the second source of literary inspiration for "Eat Me, Drink Me". An example of this is the video for the first single extracted from the album, "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hands)", in which Evan wears heart-shaped glasses as seen on the poster of the 60s film "Lolita." The video features a sequence in which Manson and Evan kiss in a moving car, an homage to the film "Bonnie and Clyde," whose ideal of love is a source of inspiration for Manson. The most controversial scene in the video, where Manson and Evan kiss and make love covered in blood, is instead an homage to the film "Trouble Every Day," whose plot sees a young woman eating her lovers, to satisfy her sexual appetite.
The symbol chosen to represent "Eat Me, Drink Me" is a spiral heart. This choice can be traced back to the 1935 film "Mad Love," on whose poster a spiral heart appears on the protagonist's eye, a scientist who can give life to his works but cannot create love without a woman by his side.
"If I Was Your Vampire" and "Putting Holes in Happiness" open the album, both excellent. The former is dramatic and full of atmosphere, while the latter is more melancholic and features a good solo. The other best tracks on the album are "They Say That Hell's Not Hot" (very thrilling), "Heart-Shaped Glasses" (the most "pop"), "Evidence" (deep and brash), "Are You The Rabbit?", "Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery" and the beautiful title-track "Eat Me, Drink Me" which closes the album.
In particular, the album features numerous solos, some of which are really heartfelt and compelling.
The lyrics of the 11 tracks contained in the album are very introspective and romantic, especially by Manson's standards. They contain quotes from the literary and cinematic works already mentioned as inspirations for the album, and the order in which they are arranged is not random but is indeed part of the concept. In fact, from the first to the fifth track, the story told is of love gone wrong. While from the seventh to the eleventh the story is of a new love. The sixth connects them (just watch the video, which starts with the notes of "Evidence" and ends with the crash of the car driven by Manson and Evan, bringing us back to "Just a Car Crash Away").
"Eat Me, Drink Me" is a dark album, moonlit and haunted by vampires. Manson takes us through the looking-glass and shows us what lies behind appearances, on a journey like "Alice in Wonderland," among his fantasies and reflections, hallucinations, and desires.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 If I Was Your Vampire (05:56)
6 AM, Christmas morning
No shadows
No reflections here
Lie cheek to cheek in your cold embrace.
So soft and so tragic as a slaughterhouse
She pressed 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
Certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other untill 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's black no turning back
If I was your vampire
Certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other till 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
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 and 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 untill 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's black no turning back
Beyond the pale
Everything's black no turning back
This is where it starts
This is where it will end
Here comes the moon again.
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.
03 The Red Carpet Grave (04:05)
They call her,
Bulldozer speech demon without distractions of hope
She makes the
depression business look surprisingly novel and she’s not just royal Allegedly loyal
but unfaithful but she has no faith in me
Inhale the damage smoothly Paradise isn’t lost
It was hiding all along
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
Bottomless celebrity scar staged circuses for schoolgirls
boys are all dressed up like a mediocre suicide omen here comes the red carpet grave Again and again and again
Oh man
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
It’s easy to beat the system
but a hard time beating the symptoms
but a hard time beating the symptoms
I can’t turn my back on you
I can’t turn my back on you
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
Here comes the red carpet grave
Again and again and again
Here comes the red carpet grave
Again and again and again
Oh man
05 Just a Car Crash Away (04:55)
Love is a fire.
Burns down all that it sees.
Burns down everything.
Everything you think
burns down
everything you say.
She blew me her death-kiss
and the mouth-marks
bled down my eye,
like her dying
just on my windshield.
I can already feel
her worms
eating my spine.
Car So how can it be this lonely?
Is that all we get
Crash for our lives?
Is love only sweeter when
one of us dies?
Away
Then I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
Lyrics I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
3x Love is a fire.
Burns down all that it sees.
Burns down everything.
Everything you think
burns down
everything you say.
I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
Knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
Just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was
just a car Just crash away.
(repeat to end of solo)
Love is a fire.
Car Burns down all that it sees.
Burns down everything.
Everything you think
Crash burns down
everything you say.
Love is a fire.
Burns down all that it sees.
Away Burns down everything.
Everything you think
burns down
everything you say.
07 Evidence (05:20)
you have eyes that lead me on
and a body that shows me death
your lips look like they were made
for something else but they just suck my breath
I want your pain
to taste why you're ashamed and I know you're not just what you say to me and I'm not the only
moment you're made of
You're so sudden and sweet all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
I want you wanting me
I want what I see in your eyes
so give me something to be scared of
don't give me something to satisfy
You're so sudden and sweet
all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off
your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
I want your pain
to taste why you're ashamed and I know you're not just what you say to me
and I'm not the only moment you're made of
You're so sudden and sweet all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
You're so sudden and sweet all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
08 Are You the Rabbit? (04:14)
I'm a kick stand in your mouth
And I'm the tongue's slamming on the brakes
Pull the choke in
Pull the choke in
As hard as it will take.
All your pictures are getting dirty
Don't want anyone else's
Hand on my gears.
And I'll choke on
All the diamonds,
Like a vulture, on your face
So ask your self before you get in,
I know the insurance won't cover this.
Are you the rabbit
Or the headlight,
And is there
Room in your life
For one more breakdown?
You can't escape,
Can't escape
All your demons.
All you demons,
"Watch out, watch out,
For your lovers."
Faster, faster,
Faster-faster-faster-faster,
I'm late, I'm late!
And the hands on my clock
Are starting to shake.
We're on the line between
The devil's tits,
We've been driving on E.
I'm going to be wanted for this crime
"Well at least you're wanted,"
You'll say.
So ask your self before you get in,
I know the insurance won't cover this.
Are you the rabbit
Or the headlight,
And is there
Room in your life
For one more breakdown?
You are an unmarked car
Can't remember where I parked you
But I love you,
Can't afford you,
Take a cab to the funeral.
Faster, faster,
Faster-faster-faster-faster,
I'm late, I'm late!
And the hands on my clock
Are starting to shake.
You can't escape,
Can't escape
All your demons.
All you demons,
"Watch out, watch out,
For your lovers."
So ask your self before you get in,
I know the insurance won't cover this.
Are you the rabbit
Or the headlight,
And is there
Room in your life
For one more breakdown?
09 Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery (03:53)
Hey
There's no rules today
You steal instead of borrow
You take all the shapes that I make
Think that you think all the thoughts that I taught you
Don't you?
Mutilation's the most sincere form of flattery.
If you want to be me,
Then stand in line like the rest
Now, do you know what I mean?
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Do you really think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Rebels without applause
I sell my shadow to those who are standing in it
They think I would bitch about them
Thinking they are the shit
When they can't even step in it
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
11 EAT ME, DRINK ME (05:41)
In the wasteland,
On the way to the Red Queen
It's no wonder our stage clothes
Have dreams to be famous.
The trees in the courtyard
Are painted in blood, so I've heard,
She hangs the headless upside down to drain.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game
I was invited to a beheading today.
I thought I was a butterfly next to your flame.
Rush of panic and the lock has been raped.
This is only a game,
this is only a game...
But then our star rushes in, feeling like a child and looking like a woman...
She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself, but the ending didn't test well.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game...
I was invited to a beheading today.
I thought I was a butterfly next to your flame.
A rush of panic and the lock has been raped.
This is only a game,
this is only a game...
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game.
But then our star rushes in, feeling like a child and looking like a woman...
She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself, but the ending didn't test well.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game,
this is only a game...
Now I'm picking my skin and my scales.
I see my horror mirrored in the sundown of your blank stare.
I see my horror mirrored in the sundown of your blank stare.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game,
But then our star rushes in, feeling like a child and looking like a woman...
She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself, but the ending didn't test well.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game.
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By beso
A fake rebel, who, however, has the courage to admit doing it for money, glory, and fame.
In conclusion, I want to go against the grain... the artist is deceased! He can’t even manage to produce a cute little single like he used to. R.I.P.
By Il Grande Hallel
You only recognize it by the voice, but everything else is different.
Taken individually, they are good songs, but only if you are aware that this is an anonymous melodic rock album poorly done.
By Sofy
After listening to 'Eat Me, Drink Me,' I found that Britney Spears is almost more metal than Marilyn Manson.
Where is Brian Warner of 'The Dope Show' or 'The Fight Song'? The more time passes, the more I’m convinced he’s selling out to the majors.
