No Such Vampire

TTTO “No such Thing”, Zander Nyrond

On a day of wind and rain, my daughter said to me:

“The caves are full of things today, oh mommy, can’t you see?”

“What kind of things?” I asked her, as my face was growing pale

“There’s demons and vampires, they kill in Sunnydale”

So I sat her at the table, and I looked all motherly

And I told her “Stop this foolishness and listen well to me”

Chorus:

There’s no such thing as demons

The vampires are not real

If you can’t face reality

Your mind we’ll have to heal

But now my daughter’s quiet, and denial is my game

I wash the blood from clothes worn, ignoring what’s to blame

And I know it’s not forever, for a slayer has to die

That day we’ll stand around the plot, say platitudes and cry

We will choose a careful wording for the headstone on the grave

For the world will still not know of her, the world she died to save

[Chorus]