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.
The weight of this town is cloudy
as if it's been raining
and this sunny city life is held in empty hands
and the pacific is looking so wonderful tonight
with a cinderblock and rope tied to my ankle.
It's closer than this
*twelve pack of medicine
Impairing a mind to the life I'm living in
**I'm all alone and you're out of luck
and I've given up what I've been fighting
So close your eyes and make believe I'm there
V2
The hits have all come back now
as if they have been waiting
For indifference to settle itself into my soul
and the skyline is looking so wonderful tonight
Under stars I fall forgetting, that there is a bed I'll never make
* Without you sleeping next to me
giving just enough room left to breathe one more day
**
***My lonely, ill fated, dream of live I've lived to hate by now..
It's your somehow
****I can fall asleep and belive it,
I can understand and know it
I can close my eyes and say it's over... It's over
as if it's been raining
and this sunny city life is held in empty hands
and the pacific is looking so wonderful tonight
with a cinderblock and rope tied to my ankle.
It's closer than this
*twelve pack of medicine
Impairing a mind to the life I'm living in
**I'm all alone and you're out of luck
and I've given up what I've been fighting
So close your eyes and make believe I'm there
V2
The hits have all come back now
as if they have been waiting
For indifference to settle itself into my soul
and the skyline is looking so wonderful tonight
Under stars I fall forgetting, that there is a bed I'll never make
* Without you sleeping next to me
giving just enough room left to breathe one more day
**
***My lonely, ill fated, dream of live I've lived to hate by now..
It's your somehow
****I can fall asleep and belive it,
I can understand and know it
I can close my eyes and say it's over... It's over
Lyrics submitted by Dummypunk
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