Love Song for a Vampire

When you listen to Annie Lennox singing, 'Love Song for a Vampire', you are sucked into a slow, turning gyre that drifts between sorrow and seduction, melancholy and longing. Written for Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, it is an exquisite ballad, with Lennox's ethereal voice conjuring both fragility and power.

'Come into these arms again/ And lay your body down/ The rhythm of this trembling heart/ Is beating like a drum,' speaks of love that hints of being transgressive, in the shadows, and utterly powerful in its desire to manifest. The arrangement, a blend of orchestral grandeur and subtle electronic textures, creates an atmosphere of both romance and foreboding, of Sturm und Drang - storm and stress.

Strings swell like blood through a puncture, while Lennox's vocals glide through the melody with ghostly elegance, embodying the loneliness of eternal love. She sings as if bound to the curse of immortality - offering a love that transcends human existence, but remains forever out of reach.


Lennox's voice trembles with emotion, covering a moonlit distance between delicate restraint and impassioned wailing. The song feels ancient, yet reaching out to us sitting in the here and now.