No Need For Vampires Tonight

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Oh there's no need for vampires tonight
No need for vampires tonight
There's no need for blood and there's no need for gore
And no need for cowboys and gangsters and war
Oh let me sleep better tonight

Oh there's no need for killing tonight
No need for killing tonight
There's no need for pillage, there's no need for rape
There's no need for grief as a means of escape
Oh let me sleep better tonight

Oh there's no need for bad news tonight
No need for bad news tonight
There's no need for death-tolls, there's no need for gloom
With just you and me in this beautiful room
Oh let us be the good news tonight
Words and Music - written/played/sung by Ted Power © 30 Dec 2009
English language learners can use the song to practise:
1) letter "s" pronounced as (voiced alveolar fricative) | letter "s" pronounced as /s/ (voiceless alveolar fricative)
2) the letters TH (voiced dental fricative consonant sound) as in "there", "these", "this", "clothes", "weather"
--Note the different pronunciation of the letters TH (voiceless dental fricative / θ / consonant sound) as in "death", "cloth", "thin" or "Arthur"
3) the diphthong as in "no"
4) the long vowel sound (lips widely spread & tense; front of tongue very high) as in "need", "sleep", "means" and "grief".
--Note the difference between commonly confused short (Lips loosely spread. Tongue lax with less tension than / i: /) and long vowel sounds:

Short-------Long

slip--------sleep
kill---------keel