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.
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Come on Petunia, you thought in your head
it would all be so easy if you could be led
to the cave where I'd hide you in linens and frames
and in new combinations I've made of our names
it's a tiny hole, yeah, but you'd fit
if I sliced you up real itty bitty
I'd sliver and splice you and then you'd be many
and I'd be the one who was privy to love you
and show you the fun
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Jamie, he stood on the stoop
and he challenged his homies
to go get some girlfriends
and locate their yonis
the waters are parting and time's getting heated
the boys needed friendship
their beat needed meated (uh uh)
her dress was a ship at sail (uh)
her knees were the water pail
this was survival and she was the kit
you could die of thirst if the girls won't give you sips
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
I resolve to call her up
a thousand times a day
I thought I'd ask her if she'd marry me
in some old fashioned way
Well, but, my silent fears were cysted
and before I reached the phone
like before my tongue has twisted why must I always be alone
Mmm
You're all Jenny and Lyndsay and fine
and I'm underwater, I'm shedding my mind
and I'm pretty sure, baby, if you'd hold my head
I could live like I've wished for and undo my dread
cause I see candygrams up in the ceiling tiles
witty postcards sent off from the Sandwich Isles
and these towns where vacations will lead us
I'll hold out my treasures and their welfare feed us
but oh she does what she wishes
and, no, she won't be your misses
the kingdom, it widens and there they're alone with all that love and the void on the throne
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Come on Petunia, you thought in your head
it would all be so easy if you could be led
to the cave where I'd hide you in linens and frames
and in new combinations I've made of our names
it's a tiny hole, yeah, but you'd fit
if I sliced you up real itty bitty
I'd sliver and splice you and then you'd be many
and I'd be the one who was privy to love you
and show you the fun
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Jamie, he stood on the stoop
and he challenged his homies
to go get some girlfriends
and locate their yonis
the waters are parting and time's getting heated
the boys needed friendship
their beat needed meated (uh uh)
her dress was a ship at sail (uh)
her knees were the water pail
this was survival and she was the kit
you could die of thirst if the girls won't give you sips
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
I resolve to call her up
a thousand times a day
I thought I'd ask her if she'd marry me
in some old fashioned way
Well, but, my silent fears were cysted
and before I reached the phone
like before my tongue has twisted why must I always be alone
Mmm
You're all Jenny and Lyndsay and fine
and I'm underwater, I'm shedding my mind
and I'm pretty sure, baby, if you'd hold my head
I could live like I've wished for and undo my dread
cause I see candygrams up in the ceiling tiles
witty postcards sent off from the Sandwich Isles
and these towns where vacations will lead us
I'll hold out my treasures and their welfare feed us
but oh she does what she wishes
and, no, she won't be your misses
the kingdom, it widens and there they're alone with all that love and the void on the throne
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Everything little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me
And even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on
Lyrics submitted by greenpurse, edited by guunter
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