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.
Oh Mrs. O
Will you tell us where the naughty children go
Will you show
How the sky turned white and everybody froze
Heaven knows how they got into the fireplace
But everybody's saying grace
And trying to keep a happy face
And oh Mrs. O
Can you teach us how to keep from getting cold
Out we go and you watch us as we face the falling snow
What a show with our hairdryers aimed heavenwards
And fifty foot extension cords
You really have a way with words
The truth can't save you now
The sky is falling down
Watch the vultures count the hours
April trains may bring strange showers
And oh Mrs. O
Will you tell about the time they made you go
All alone to the palace where they took your only clothes
We all know
There's no hell and no hiroshima
Chernobyl was a cover up
The world is really all in love
Oh Mrs O
Will you leave us hanging now that we are grown
Up and old
Will you kill me if I say I told you so
We all know
Ther'es no hitler and no holocaust
No winter and no santa clause
And yes virginia all because
The truth can't save you now
The sky is falling down
Eveything they ever told us
Shakes our faith and breaks their promise
But you can stop the truth from leaking
If you never stop believing
Will you tell us where the naughty children go
Will you show
How the sky turned white and everybody froze
Heaven knows how they got into the fireplace
But everybody's saying grace
And trying to keep a happy face
And oh Mrs. O
Can you teach us how to keep from getting cold
Out we go and you watch us as we face the falling snow
What a show with our hairdryers aimed heavenwards
And fifty foot extension cords
You really have a way with words
The truth can't save you now
The sky is falling down
Watch the vultures count the hours
April trains may bring strange showers
And oh Mrs. O
Will you tell about the time they made you go
All alone to the palace where they took your only clothes
We all know
There's no hell and no hiroshima
Chernobyl was a cover up
The world is really all in love
Oh Mrs O
Will you leave us hanging now that we are grown
Up and old
Will you kill me if I say I told you so
We all know
Ther'es no hitler and no holocaust
No winter and no santa clause
And yes virginia all because
The truth can't save you now
The sky is falling down
Eveything they ever told us
Shakes our faith and breaks their promise
But you can stop the truth from leaking
If you never stop believing
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Virginia O'Hanlon was little girl living in New York city in 1897 who was discouraged by her friends telling her there was no Santa Claus. She wrote the New York Sun after encouragement from her father, asking if this was true. Virginia O'Hanlon received the famous "Yes, Virginia" response written to her by Francis Church a war correspondent for the newspaper The New York Sun.
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I think this song is about the lies that adults tell children to make the world not seem so monsterous.
I think the fact that Francis Church, was a war correspondent, is very interesting due to the many war references in the song. It seems that Francis Church told Virginia O'Hanlon about the existence of Santa clause, but left out all the truths about war, and destruction.
@0niongirl Thank you for introducing me to this story. I agree that it's about the lies we tell to children, not only to make the world a nicer place for them, but also because it comforts ourselves. In the letter you can see, that the war correspondant felt deeply the need of the nicer world himself, in the letter he was dealing with his own fear and misery. I think the song (as it refers to "Ms.") is based on a fact that little Virginia lived until 1971 and therefore lived through all the horrors of 20. century and the song tries to imagine similar deceiving, but hopeful and comforting conversations about them.