Energy Vampires

by Peter Hammill

From the album: The Future Now

Track 5 of 12 on The Future Now (1978).

The Future Now cover art

Lyrics for Energy Vampires

Hunched in the corner of the dressing-room, trying to get back to the real... Uh-oh, here they come, ready for their meal: Energy Vampires, crawling out of the wall, they want to steal my vitality, they want to drink it all. This guy says that he wrote all my songs, this girl says she's had my baby – me, I don't know them from Adam and Eve, sometimes I really believe I'm going crazy. "Excuse me while I suck your blood, excuse me when I phone you, I've got every one of your records, man, doesn't that mean I own you?" Oh, sure, I long ago decided to make myself an exponent of public possession in the private obsession zone. But now I'm serious, let's be serious, I'm not selling you my soul, try to put it in the records but I've got to keep my life my own. One thing I've not got a lot of is time and it's slipping away... I've got a life to live too. Ah, here they come... Vampires!

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More from The Future Now

  1. Pushing Thirty
  2. The Second Hand
  3. Trappings
  4. The Mousetrap (Caught In)
  5. Energy Vampires
  6. If I Could
  7. The Future Now
  8. Still In The Dark
  9. Mediaevil
  10. A Motor-Bike In Afrika
  11. The Cut
  12. Palinurus (Castaway)