Songs For The Vampire Diaries
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If any of the lyrics are wrong – I'm sorry. I had to guess because I looked up the song and it wasn't on any of the lyrics websites. Tell me what parts are wrong! Thanks!
Love Song For A Vampire
(Sung by Annie Lenox)
My Elena was smiling at me. I almost completely forgot that she ever reminded me of a girl called Katherine. Sometimes I feel like she's been returned to me, but other times I know that Elena is completely different and is in no shape or form like the evil vampire who tried to destroy Fells Church. It's as if their roles were reversed. Katherine before I fell in love with her was innocent. Elena before I fell in love with her? Well, I'd rather not say. I suppose like one of those popular girls who thinks everyone except her equal is dirt on her shoes, catty and stuck-up (even though I hate thinking badly of her). That was until she started feeling again and knew where her loyalties lie.
There is a mother's trembling heart, it's beating like a drum. It beats for you, it bleeds for you, it knows not how it sounds. For it is the drum of drums, it is the Song of Songs…
I remembered how I first tasted Elena's blood… how I hated it yet loved it at exactly the same time – which was the kind of way I feel for Damon (except less violent). How I hate hurting him but know that nothing would stop us being brothers.
The night we exchanged blood I felt my heart break – I was hurting her and I couldn't believe I'd broken my promise of never drinking human blood. The only thing that made it right was that I knew she didn't take it to heart. That nothing I could ever do to her could hurt as much as disowning her.
Damon, watching Bonnie silently with his predatory gaze, made me feel uneasy. He was sat opposite me, frowning slightly, his eyes glistening. I don't know whether he still felt for Elena or not, but I didn't like it that it had taken us five centuries to be friends again. Proper brothers. Not people who hated each other's guts. Not love rivals. A pair willing to fight for one another.
My heart pounded harder when I saw Elena get up from her spot by the coffee table. Matt was busy explaining how to play Cluedo to Caroline, Meredith was flirting with Alaric on the phone (a long distance call from Russia). Only Damon noticed, I could tell by the way he shifted in his seat, but he did nothing – said nothing.
Once I had the rarest rose that ever dared to bloom. Cruel winter chilled the bone, and stole my flower too soon…
The years without Katherine erupted inside of me threefold and I longed to hold Elena, just to make the pain and misery reside. Nothing could return to me what Katherine's betrayal had banished from me, but things helped. Now I felt almost human again.
After all that Damon had done, after destroying my social life at school when being blamed for a murderer, after exchanging blood with Elena, after killing Mr Tanner… he wasn't all bad. Sure he was turning the atmosphere in the room cold but no one chose to notice. Sure, he brought on the winter that drove Elena and I crazy… sure, all that but he saved my life. And he chose us over Katherine – over power. That meant something to me, and erased the evil he'd done before.
Damon reminded me of an old song I heard once on the radio – ironically named Love Song For A Vampire. He was so innocent when he was younger until he fell in with the wrong crowd. He was the protective older brother – maybe not as close to me as I'd hoped because of Mother – but he was still a brother, not an enemy. One winter, when he left for college, he just changed. The winter stole my brother away. It was then Damon turned cold – just like the season that had taken him. He stole my flower, my Katherine… and then he tried to get my Elena.
Oh loneliness. Oh hopelessness. To search the ends of time…
I searched; I waited for the time, the centuries, to slip away – walking around after Katherine's death as if life wasn't worth living. I hated myself. I hated living. Quote from 'Interview With A Vampire': "My invitation was open to anyone… it was a vampire who answered." That vampire was Katherine. She made me feel so guilty… but she also brought me Elena – and that was who I'd been searching for all my life. Not to find peace with my brother, not to get over Katherine's death, but to find my ultimate love – my Elena.
Though there is in all the world. No greater love than life...
I miss living. I'd do anything to be alive again. Just to feel like I belong and wouldn't be peering over my shoulder every second to see if there was a vampire hunter lurking in the shadows with a stake. What Elena, Matt and Damon put back in, the others as well, made me feel alive again. It makes me feel like I'd never plunged that sword into my brother and he'd never done the same to me.
Life is precious, so… so precious… And God understands that. Why else would he have brought Elena back to me? Why else?
Still falls the rain…
There are days when I wake up and think "God, another day?" but there is nothing else to be afraid of anymore. Klaus is gone… Tyler's gone… Katherine's gone… Hell, even Mr Tanner's gone! No more heated arguments in European History. At least Damon did something right!
Let me be the only one, to keep you from the cold. Now it flow with helplessly, with stars bright and strong…
Elena sat down on the sofa, next to me, and I put my arm around her, grinning – which I had no control over. I love you… I told her, and I realised that that was all I could muster – the last of my mental powers. She turned to me, her face contorted in shock and surprise, but smiled and nestled her head in my arm, happily. I knew, then, that we were untouchable.
Damon had set his sights on Bonnie; Matt had even fallen for a changed Caroline – a more sensitive Caroline. Everyone was coupled up – especially since Bonnie enjoyed flirting with my brother. Elena's lapis eyes flashed, like stars in the night sky. She stared at me, transfixed.
They shine for you, they shine for you. They burn for all to see…
"I live for you," she whispered. I bent down and kissed her on the lips. "And I only live for you," I told her back. We were locked in a desperate embrace, and we weren't prepared to let go.
"You're the mirror…" I murmured, my voice muffled as I pressed my lips against her golden hair.
Come into these arms again…
"I'm the mirror?" she joked. Damon looked over at us and smiled a smile only I could detect.
And set this spirit free.
"You've stolen my soul," I replied, looking at my brother. This was the happiest I'd been for a long time.
Elena has set me free.
In the words (and mind) of Stefan Salvatore