Techno Ted may be a person who caused Chris incredible emotional pain & trepidation as well as moments of peace & happiness but now is removed and awaiting his fate. Darling may be a different person who is also free of him and can live her life free of Ted's tyranny. "In between all the laughing, and daydreams ... lies: a desert of truth" Lies are like a desert or the omission of Truth: Where there were Lies then Truth was absent. The song, "Techno Ted", may be a cathartic celebration of the downfall of this person.
Here I'm debating time, I'm waiting
Come the wake
Free fall the cannonball volcanic
shatters on the lake
You settle down,
Where you runnin' to?
What else can you prove?
How many, many more until you lose?
You thought a better plan could
Shake this shadow land
This frozen tundra hand
[Chorus]
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight,
Roaring into firelight,
Scorching up the charlatans
Until it's city wide
All the people mobilize,
Nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Dear I have missed your sigh
since crystal skies moved on
Peer out through shadow's doubt
I had no passion all along
You settle down. where you running to?
What else can you prove?
Is this all a game?
Was this all a ruse?
I've waited by the phone.
Cold as river stone
Anxiety. Alone.
[Chorus]
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
[Chorus]
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
Come the wake
Free fall the cannonball volcanic
shatters on the lake
You settle down,
Where you runnin' to?
What else can you prove?
How many, many more until you lose?
You thought a better plan could
Shake this shadow land
This frozen tundra hand
[Chorus]
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight,
Roaring into firelight,
Scorching up the charlatans
Until it's city wide
All the people mobilize,
Nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Dear I have missed your sigh
since crystal skies moved on
Peer out through shadow's doubt
I had no passion all along
You settle down. where you running to?
What else can you prove?
Is this all a game?
Was this all a ruse?
I've waited by the phone.
Cold as river stone
Anxiety. Alone.
[Chorus]
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
[Chorus]
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
Lyrics submitted by myownprison333
Desperation Song Lyrics as written by Carter Gravatt Barry Thomas Privett
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