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.
Oh, put our heads together
Because a signature could change our future
Uh-huh
For some wrote you a letter begging you to reconsider
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Put our heads together
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
So they put number
On the television, Mr. Gardner
Oh, yeah
A messed up generation
Put the pressure on you
You're a coward
Uh-huh
Yeah, yea-hey
A messed-up generation
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
We can see right through you, we're awake
Send your men and we are all awake
Awake, awake, awake, awake
Wake, awake, awake, awake
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voice
Because a signature could change our future
Uh-huh
For some wrote you a letter begging you to reconsider
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Put our heads together
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
So they put number
On the television, Mr. Gardner
Oh, yeah
A messed up generation
Put the pressure on you
You're a coward
Uh-huh
Yeah, yea-hey
A messed-up generation
Ah, ah, ah
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
We can see right through you, we're awake
Send your men and we are all awake
Awake, awake, awake, awake
Wake, awake, awake, awake
Fear the voices
You hear today
If you still have choices
We'll blow you away
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voices
Fear the voice
Lyrics submitted by Degradation Trip, edited by raingray
Fear the Voices Lyrics as written by Jerry Cantrell Layne Staley
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Second verse: "Mr. Gardner" could be a reference to one of several people who were present in the media in the early 1990s and possibly of interest to members of Alice In Chains: Howard Gardner, the psychologist who developed the multiple intelligences theory, or Booth Gardner, the Democratic governor of the state of Washington. I'm not exactly sure why either of these guys would be of particular interest to the members of AIC or why the lyrics would call Mr. Gardner a coward, but who knows. The band members weren't exactly a bunch of scholars.
For a whole list of people with the last name Gardner, see Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_%28surname%29
Putting a number on the television strikes me as something having to do with the sensationalized anti-drug propaganda that was (and still is) fashionable in the media--another topic that seems to have been a favorite of Staley's. Perhaps the number referred to the number of heroin addicts or something like that. "A messed up generation" lends credence to this theory. Bands like Alice In Chains and Nirvana often got blamed for making heroin seem cool.