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.
Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
Who are young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
'Coz I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Just driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
'Coz it's not my home
It's their home, and I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought, oh god, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me and
I just couldn't ask
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
Just driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Haven't got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege, is mine
There is a light and it never goes out (to fade)
Where there's music and there's people
Who are young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
'Coz I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Just driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
'Coz it's not my home
It's their home, and I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought, oh god, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me and
I just couldn't ask
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
Just driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Haven't got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege, is mine
There is a light and it never goes out (to fade)
Lyrics submitted by trigger_hippie
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