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.
All God's children would have cause
to think the Devil now walks this realm
A place dispossessed of any sanity
Edification of a scene from Hell
Manmade prophecies serve to vindicate
All sides who claim themselves
worthy servants obedient to the same God
A God who commands them not to kill
These faithful in lines that number thousands
bring perdition throughout the land
As though the angel of deah himself had been unleashed
to exact a punishment upon this world
Across this cursed place rage the fires
Where the innocent are burned on a thousand funeral pyres
In anguish parted from this world
Does the need for the belief in the Devil
Serve to palliate and forgive our sins
In the abandonment of reason and delivery unto Hell
Limitless are the ways of mankind in it's virulent capacities
Ironic it may seem, through this a chance exists to see
In us also lies the capacity to transcend
to think the Devil now walks this realm
A place dispossessed of any sanity
Edification of a scene from Hell
Manmade prophecies serve to vindicate
All sides who claim themselves
worthy servants obedient to the same God
A God who commands them not to kill
These faithful in lines that number thousands
bring perdition throughout the land
As though the angel of deah himself had been unleashed
to exact a punishment upon this world
Across this cursed place rage the fires
Where the innocent are burned on a thousand funeral pyres
In anguish parted from this world
Does the need for the belief in the Devil
Serve to palliate and forgive our sins
In the abandonment of reason and delivery unto Hell
Limitless are the ways of mankind in it's virulent capacities
Ironic it may seem, through this a chance exists to see
In us also lies the capacity to transcend
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this is the epitome of the darkness that we are capable of...the last line is the 'light at the end of the tunnel'..."in us also lies the capacity to transcend". We are capable of murdering eachother, destroying ourselves and our environment, yet at the same time, capable of endless possibilities that can benefit us as individuals and as a whole. The question is when do we decide which direction is right? I love this song.
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dancemusic.about.com/od/artistshomepages/a/VnVNationInt.htm
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read the rest of the quoted article here: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2921807.stm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson