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.
There's 10,000 reasons to survive
But you only needed 1 to die
It's too late to change what you've become
I won't always be this always lonely
The way you lived your life
It mesmerizes me
Now won't you take some time
To cast out your regrets?
Why did you leave our lives?
It mesmerizes me
So you won't take the time
Cast out your regrets
I hear a creaking through the door
I see you seeping through the floor
It's not easy asking you to leave
'Cause you'll always be the only
The way you lived your life
It mesmerizes me
Now won't you take some time
To cast out your regrets?
Why did you leave our lives?
It mesmerizes me
So you won't take the time
Cast out your regrets
The way you lived your life
It mesmerizes me
Now won't you take some time
To cast out your regrets?
Why did you leave our lives?
It mesmerizes me
So you won't take the time
Cast out your regrets
But you only needed 1 to die
It's too late to change what you've become
I won't always be this always lonely
The way you lived your life
It mesmerizes me
Now won't you take some time
To cast out your regrets?
Why did you leave our lives?
It mesmerizes me
So you won't take the time
Cast out your regrets
I hear a creaking through the door
I see you seeping through the floor
It's not easy asking you to leave
'Cause you'll always be the only
The way you lived your life
It mesmerizes me
Now won't you take some time
To cast out your regrets?
Why did you leave our lives?
It mesmerizes me
So you won't take the time
Cast out your regrets
The way you lived your life
It mesmerizes me
Now won't you take some time
To cast out your regrets?
Why did you leave our lives?
It mesmerizes me
So you won't take the time
Cast out your regrets
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
This is from Deron: This song is about a widower who just recently got married and his wife committed suicide. Recently after her death he believes that his wife is haunting him, trying to tell him something. "I hear a creaking through the door, i see you seeping through the floor" This is making the man a very uneasy person and he can't move on with his life. It breaks his heart to do it but he tells his wife's spirit to go away.He tells the ghost of her to leave him alone"Its not easy asking you to leave, cause you'll always be the only" I think that maybe the whole "now wont you take the time to cast out your regrets" part maybe the guy thought his wife was trying to tell him all the stuff she regrets doing (having an affair? maybe he found out? rough past?) but yeah thats pretty much the meaning
This is from Deron:<br /> This song is about a widower who just recently got married and his wife committed suicide. Recently after her death he believes that his wife is haunting him, trying to tell him something. "I hear a creaking through the door, i see you seeping through the floor" This is making the man a very uneasy person and he can't move on with his life. It breaks his heart to do it but he tells his wife's spirit to go away.He tells the ghost of her to leave him alone"Its not easy asking you to leave, cause you'll always be the only" I think that maybe the whole "now wont you take the time to cast out your regrets" part maybe the guy thought his wife was trying to tell him all the stuff she regrets doing (having an affair? maybe he found out? rough past?)<br /> but yeah thats pretty much the meaning<br /> <br /> All that makes sence. I just think.. Maybe the part "now wont you take the time to cast out your regrets" means, that the wife is trying to tell him that she is truely sorry for leaving him/killing herself. She doesn't want him to forget her, even though she made a terrible mistake. And that explains with she is haunting him.