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.
I'm full of regret
For all the things that I have done and said
And I don't know if it'll ever be okay to show
My face around here
Sometimes I wonder if I disappear
Would you ever turn your head and look
To see if I'm gone
'Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you want to hear
That you want to know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
You're just an innocent
A helpless victim of a spider's web
And I'm an insect
Going after anything that I can get
So you'd better turn your head and run
And don't look back
'Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you want to hear
That you want to know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
And I have done you so wrong
Treated you bad
Strung you along
Oh, shame on myself
I don't know how I got so tangled up
Mmm, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, you'd better turn your head and run
See if I'm gone
'Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you want to hear
That you want to know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
And I have done you so wrong
Treated you bad
Strung you along
Oh, shame on myself
I don't know how I got so tangled up
(Strung you along
(Oh, shame on myself)
(I don't know how I got so tangled up)
For all the things that I have done and said
And I don't know if it'll ever be okay to show
My face around here
Sometimes I wonder if I disappear
Would you ever turn your head and look
To see if I'm gone
'Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you want to hear
That you want to know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
You're just an innocent
A helpless victim of a spider's web
And I'm an insect
Going after anything that I can get
So you'd better turn your head and run
And don't look back
'Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you want to hear
That you want to know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
And I have done you so wrong
Treated you bad
Strung you along
Oh, shame on myself
I don't know how I got so tangled up
Mmm, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, you'd better turn your head and run
See if I'm gone
'Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you want to hear
That you want to know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
And I have done you so wrong
Treated you bad
Strung you along
Oh, shame on myself
I don't know how I got so tangled up
(Strung you along
(Oh, shame on myself)
(I don't know how I got so tangled up)
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consider it fixed! your welcome ;-D
by the way-- love the song. it's fun!