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.
Sharp as teeth and stars
I can't give you up
Like a moth to light
Move like caramel
Till dawn
You glow
Soon be nothing
Of this world
Soon be nothing
Breathe back into life
Stabs at happiness
Now we're having fun
Hold tight don't look down
Till dawn
You glow
I can't give you up
Like a moth to light
Move like caramel
Till dawn
You glow
Soon be nothing
Of this world
Soon be nothing
Breathe back into life
Stabs at happiness
Now we're having fun
Hold tight don't look down
Till dawn
You glow
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There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
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I think this might be about a bad trip, or a heroin overdose. I'm just guessing here, but drugs seem to be the theme.
Sharp as teeth and stars = injection, the needle.
Like a moth to light = the one she's singing about being unable to resist, and being drawn back to drugs again and again.
Move like caramel = the dreamy, surreal effects of drug use? I can't say, but it sounds something like that.
Till dawn, you glow = the high, or the session, lasts through the night, the use being strung out afterwards.
Soon be nothing of this world = could refer to a surreal trip, or could be a warning (or assurance) of the threat of overdose and death?
Stabs at happiness = another needle reference? Addiction makes the high an exemplary state of happiness.
Now we're having fun/hold tight don't look down = the user either views being high as the ultimate state of wellbeing, or these lines describe the user's spirit being lifted from his dead body.
This is just an interpretation of mine. Alison Goldfrapp would be spinning in her grave if she read this and was dead.