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.
This is a sauna, Western Atlantic coast
With no place to be, just takin' to the sea
Tonight with a constant buzz
Staring at the ocean crashing on
All the rocks below in this foreign home
(CHORUS):
This soft story
When we're gone, I feel I'll never miss anyone
And you lay in the grass along the edge
Is this a dream
You ask and I don't say anything
'Cause this may be a dream
And we come to this place
Like two convicts that have escaped
From the prison of every day
And for the moment we'll have our say
(CHORUS)
You know that tomorrow comes like disease to us
You know that tomorrow comes
From this cliff's edge
The gulls fly below us
Diving into the sea below us
And I'm not cold tonight
Beside you, beside you
And we're not cold tonight
This soft story
When we're gone, I feel I'll never miss anyone
This soft story
Ex-patriot, you're comin' home
With no place to be, just takin' to the sea
Tonight with a constant buzz
Staring at the ocean crashing on
All the rocks below in this foreign home
(CHORUS):
This soft story
When we're gone, I feel I'll never miss anyone
And you lay in the grass along the edge
Is this a dream
You ask and I don't say anything
'Cause this may be a dream
And we come to this place
Like two convicts that have escaped
From the prison of every day
And for the moment we'll have our say
(CHORUS)
You know that tomorrow comes like disease to us
You know that tomorrow comes
From this cliff's edge
The gulls fly below us
Diving into the sea below us
And I'm not cold tonight
Beside you, beside you
And we're not cold tonight
This soft story
When we're gone, I feel I'll never miss anyone
This soft story
Ex-patriot, you're comin' home
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Dr. L'Ling Lyrics as written by Johnson Carlile
Lyrics © SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Techno Ted
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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This band just can't write a bad song.
I didn't really like this song the first time I heard the album but it grew on me and now I very much love every song on Planet of Ice.
i like this song a lot
The new album is going to kick so much ass.
This is the best song ever written in the history of music.
Pretty sure these aren't 100% correct... close but not 100%.
there's a missing section after the awesomely long guitar part in the middle where i'm just speculating what is said and the "touch me sweet" part was sorta off.
can you get enough is there enough can you get enough is there enough can you get enough found out your escape route
can you get enough is there ever enough found out your escape route
touch me sweet forget the rest hooks feel so nice dug in my chest
touch me sweet touch me sweet
that's what i hear anyway.
It's also:
Hooks feel so nice dug in my chest.
Not: void in my chest.
is it just me or is a massive coincidence the title Dr.L'ling, looks a lot like Drilling, the track from Menos El Oso?anybody know any stories behind this?
@kykyhunt - not sure about that, but (great question) what I do know is that these are the lyrics to Drilling and not Dr. L'ling
I think it's "makes prose from poetry and it don't mean much"