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praised it as a "well-written song", noting the "great chord changes", "powerful raunchy vocal" and "guitar playing that will set a few heads nodding their appreciation". He considered it to be "much more inspiring" than 'Separate Lives', adding "you'd be hard-pushed to recognise it as the same
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can become a werewolf, but girls don't. I even got to put in a few suggestions of my own, like the scene where I tilt a head so I can bite the neck. I thought that was necessary to show I was just a vampire, not a mass murderer."
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