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.
Come along with me now cause there are things I've been
Dying to tell you
The best of the worst things that you never
Needed to know
This is the kind of comedy where no one's
Laughing, cause it's hard to
I'm a punch line who's punch-drunk
With my fist in a broken mirror
There's a party nearby
I can hear
Laughter in the distance and it all comes clear
Sounds to simple
Love is the only answer
Everything else is just a train wreck
I'm gonna stay up all night every night for the rest of my life
'Til
The lines around my eyes grow deeper and more defined
You might
Ask me aren't you dead inside and so damn tired
I'll say I have no
Idea I'm not sleeping until after the dying is over
I can hear laughter
In the distance and it all comes clear
Sounds to simple
Love is the
Only answer
When love's a train wreck you're a mistake
Dying to tell you
The best of the worst things that you never
Needed to know
This is the kind of comedy where no one's
Laughing, cause it's hard to
I'm a punch line who's punch-drunk
With my fist in a broken mirror
There's a party nearby
I can hear
Laughter in the distance and it all comes clear
Sounds to simple
Love is the only answer
Everything else is just a train wreck
I'm gonna stay up all night every night for the rest of my life
'Til
The lines around my eyes grow deeper and more defined
You might
Ask me aren't you dead inside and so damn tired
I'll say I have no
Idea I'm not sleeping until after the dying is over
I can hear laughter
In the distance and it all comes clear
Sounds to simple
Love is the
Only answer
When love's a train wreck you're a mistake
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