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.
Had they been the ones dying under the cooking sun, picking through the dust, scratching at the barren earth, had it been THEIR insides spilling into the sand, they’d see on cracking land their spirit cannot triumph. Take a breath. Sit back and relax. Enjoy your moment of peace. You’ll soon be back in the middle. Prepare for this one to make you flinch in disbelief. When you catch a glimpse of those just following the paths that got us to where we are. Who are these human shadows with still-beating hearts? Scratching at the door to our paradise. Why do corpses litter the road? Who are these humans? So this is paradise. Beyond the distant hands of the world. Here we all think we don’t belong but still bow our heads to our Emperors. Is this all there is? Maybe we really have nothing to say. Maybe we truly are just shallow and lame and we’re all just waiting for the end, the spectacle, or some kind of catastrophe to bring us back to earth to stun our ever nodding heads. To introduce us once again to the one incorruptible as she flushes us from her veins. Kills us to live again. In case you wonder - I’m not trying to be cynical. I know how you feel - If your life’s disconnect. In case you wonder - “What the fuck’s wrong with me?” If it all makes sense you’re the furthest fucking gone. They’ve got badges that they cover with their hands while they’re bashing your fucking head. They’ve got graveyards that they’ll fill with that head if you start getting anywhere. I won’t pretend that we’re on the winning end. But when did that matter before anyway? That never mattered before anyway.
Lyrics submitted by MrPryMinista
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"Had they been the ones dying under the cooking sun, picking through the dust, scratching at the barren earth, had it been THEIR insides spilling into the sand, they'd see on cracking land their spirit cannot triumph.
He's saying that if the politicians and generals were the ones fighting then they would realize that they cannot win any war or use war to get whatever they want. He then cuts to talking about how in our society (western cultures like America and Canada), even though we're supposed to believe we're free and non oppressed, we all feel disconnected and unhappy and still bow to emperors.
He concludes that he's not trying to be a downer, but everyone is so disconnected from the truth (that we live in an unhappy world and a tyrannical state) and if society makes sense to you then you're messed up. He won't pretend that the citizens are on the winning end, because that never made anything different anyways.
Yeah, the end he's just saying he's not trying to be depressing or "emo" about it but it doesn't matter that the situation is bleak because that never stopped them fighting before.
Yeah, the end he's just saying he's not trying to be depressing or "emo" about it but it doesn't matter that the situation is bleak because that never stopped them fighting before.