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.
Saturday morning
Who's gonna play with me?
Six in the morning, baby
I got a long, long day ahead of me
The parents are sleeping soundly
The neighbors are dead as wood
I'm getting up and coming over
We gotta rock the neighborhood
Nothing's ever gonna happen 'round here
If we don't make it happen
Sleep away the day if you want to
But I got something that I gonna do
It's Saturday morning
And this ain't the place for me
I'm giving you warning, baby
We got a whole big, fat world to see
Nothing's ever gonna happen 'round here
If we don't make it happen
Sleep away the day if you want to
But I got something that I gonna do
It's Saturday morning
And who's gonna play with me?
Six in the morning, baby
I got a long, long day ahead of me
Saturday morning
Saturday morning
Who's gonna play with me?
Six in the morning, baby
I got a long, long day ahead of me
The parents are sleeping soundly
The neighbors are dead as wood
I'm getting up and coming over
We gotta rock the neighborhood
Nothing's ever gonna happen 'round here
If we don't make it happen
Sleep away the day if you want to
But I got something that I gonna do
It's Saturday morning
And this ain't the place for me
I'm giving you warning, baby
We got a whole big, fat world to see
Nothing's ever gonna happen 'round here
If we don't make it happen
Sleep away the day if you want to
But I got something that I gonna do
It's Saturday morning
And who's gonna play with me?
Six in the morning, baby
I got a long, long day ahead of me
Saturday morning
Saturday morning
Lyrics submitted by windmills221b
Saturday Morning Lyrics as written by Mark O. Everett Kelly Logsdon
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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having run a radio show on saturday mornings on a sleepy campus in the depths of maine, this song was a perfect morning kick to get into the groove of radio, and basically summs up that feeling of bored restlessness that sneaks into the sole every now and again. who's gunna play with me?
love it.
i love anything from the eels. this song was featured on the oc!
About how fun and exciting saturdays used to be when people are children I remember E saying in an interview
I LOVE THIS SONG...OF COURSE I FIRST HEARD IT ON THE OC BUT YEAH AND I COULDNT EXACTLY FIGURE OUT WHAT IT MENT AND THEN IT CAME TO ME I THIS THIS SONG COULD BE ABOUT SEX! "WHO'S GONNA PLAY WITH ME...PARENTS ASLEEP,...nothing's ever gunna happen 'round here if we don't make it happen ......WE'RE GONNA ROCK THE NEIGHBORE HOOD...I DONT KNOW SOUNDS LIKE SEX....BUT YEAH...I LOVE THIS SONG
this songs about being a kid,waking up before everyone else in the house and not having anything to do
I love this song! It honestly has to be the happiest, most optimistic song ever written!
I think it's pretty self explanatory. He's saying that whilst everyone else is wasting their time not doing things with their lives (sleeping away in bed), he'd rather be out doing things and being productive. It's a real "come on and do something, dammit" song.
yeah through the image of the kid waking up, enthousiastic about everything while being innocent E insites us on looking on at the bright side. and.. well let's go crazy let's get nuuuuts.. you don't like the world you're living in but are we gonna let the elevator bring us down? oh noOo let's goooO
One of my favorite Eels songs.
This is the theme song of my 4 year-old son.