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.
Steady girl on your feet
(Steady girl on your feet)
You and your wonderings
(You and your wonderings)
Bread can feed a few
(Bread can feed a few)
So can some cartoons
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
Plant another seed of hate
In a trusting virgin gun
Steady girl for the show
(Steady girl for the show)
Got a versus god ringside
(Got a versus god ringside)
Littered with corpses
Neither God can forgive
So the desert proves
(So the desert proves)
Strawberry canned dust
(Strawberry canned dust
Can you blame nature
(Can you blame nature)
If sheâ??s had enough of us
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
Plant another seed of hate
In a trusting virgin gun
Steady boy watch them pray
To you I suspect
If you keep my flesh firm
Iâ??ll ready those sacraments
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
Plant another seed of hate
In another fatherâ??s son.
(Steady girl on your feet)
You and your wonderings
(You and your wonderings)
Bread can feed a few
(Bread can feed a few)
So can some cartoons
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
Plant another seed of hate
In a trusting virgin gun
Steady girl for the show
(Steady girl for the show)
Got a versus god ringside
(Got a versus god ringside)
Littered with corpses
Neither God can forgive
So the desert proves
(So the desert proves)
Strawberry canned dust
(Strawberry canned dust
Can you blame nature
(Can you blame nature)
If sheâ??s had enough of us
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
Plant another seed of hate
In a trusting virgin gun
Steady boy watch them pray
To you I suspect
If you keep my flesh firm
Iâ??ll ready those sacraments
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
So it ends
So it begins
Ah my fatherâ??s son
Plant another seed of hate
In another fatherâ??s son.
Lyrics submitted by stentorian
Father's Son Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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daneypops, that is an amazing analogy! I had an alternative idea, though... I thought, either the cartoons were the 'offensive' ones of the prophet Muhammad, which caused so much anger to some of the muslim community, thereby just perpetuating this divide within society - or they're political cartoons, which are always rife in times of war, and do provide solace to pissed off people.
I definitely think it's about Iraq, or just war in general, and yes, the 'father's son' is probably Bush... but also, it seems to me to be about patriarchy - it's handed down, father to son, not really mother/daughter. Tori doesn't tend to comment on father/son relationships, she's more about mother/daughter, and she is very positive about that side of it. But the male (?) narrator is talking to a female: 'Steady girl on your feet'. To me that sounds like something patronising, something you might say to someone who you think is getting much too self-righteous and angry about something. 'You and your wonderings' - again, condescending... like saying 'what are you like?'
'If you keep my flesh firm, I'll ready those sacraments.' - I think this is saying, if you keep ME safe, I'll be willing to keep doing this in your name. It's about selfishness and naivete.