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.
Men have made the a-bombs
Men have made guns
The dreaded torture chambers
And the barbed wire fence
But of all the awful things that
Men did invent
The idea of ideal beauty is worth
The most contempt
And tell me who's a killer?
If we all consider
That emotion runs as deep as flesh
And the idea of ideals
That say what beauty is
Has sentenced so many to death
Beauty is the beast
You better believe it
You're wasting your whole life
If you're trying to achieve it
Beauty is the beast
-And you better believe it
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Now, who can tell me how
And where to begin
In a world who thinks of ugly
As the cardinal sin
And constantly is talking about the beauty within
But looks up in the cellar everything that is grim
And tell me who's a killer?
If we all consider
That emotion runs as deep as flesh
And the idea of ideals
That say what beauty is
Has sentenced so many to death
Beauty is the beast
Beauty like a barbed wire fence
Beauty is the beast
Beauty like a barbed wire fence
So, if beauty is your friend
You'd better go deceive it
Beauty is the beast, you better believe it
You're wasting your whole life
If you're trying to achieve it
Beauty is the beast
And you better believe it
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Men have made guns
The dreaded torture chambers
And the barbed wire fence
But of all the awful things that
Men did invent
The idea of ideal beauty is worth
The most contempt
And tell me who's a killer?
If we all consider
That emotion runs as deep as flesh
And the idea of ideals
That say what beauty is
Has sentenced so many to death
Beauty is the beast
You better believe it
You're wasting your whole life
If you're trying to achieve it
Beauty is the beast
-And you better believe it
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Now, who can tell me how
And where to begin
In a world who thinks of ugly
As the cardinal sin
And constantly is talking about the beauty within
But looks up in the cellar everything that is grim
And tell me who's a killer?
If we all consider
That emotion runs as deep as flesh
And the idea of ideals
That say what beauty is
Has sentenced so many to death
Beauty is the beast
Beauty like a barbed wire fence
Beauty is the beast
Beauty like a barbed wire fence
So, if beauty is your friend
You'd better go deceive it
Beauty is the beast, you better believe it
You're wasting your whole life
If you're trying to achieve it
Beauty is the beast
And you better believe it
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Beauty is the beast
Lyrics submitted by Ocean Soul
Beauty Is the Beast Lyrics as written by Martin Karl Axen Persson Lars Henrik Ljungberg
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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