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.
For the great blue cold now reigns...
adamantly taking hold
of every bruised, battered heart
and every slack, weary limb knuckles down
For we shall bend to the cause
the open sea awaits us all
surrender breeds no remorse
we suffered through the ordeal
they came to get me in my dreams
to take me down to the ocean
only in death shall we be sage
and see that heaven lies behind
and we shall quake
reading those words on this book's final page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
certain and endless, it seemed
but every petty grain of sand
and every bone will be washed out to the sea
numbness unfurls
in each and every brain
the coast now is clear,
the air is thin
and as your own plot unfolds
it gets more difficult to bribe
the magistrates of your own psyche
what will you say
when all the lights go dim
and the cup of disappointment is full to the brim?
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
only in death shall we be sage
when every ocean has dessicated
and we shall quake, reading those words
on this book's last page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
adamantly taking hold
of every bruised, battered heart
and every slack, weary limb knuckles down
For we shall bend to the cause
the open sea awaits us all
surrender breeds no remorse
we suffered through the ordeal
they came to get me in my dreams
to take me down to the ocean
only in death shall we be sage
and see that heaven lies behind
and we shall quake
reading those words on this book's final page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
certain and endless, it seemed
but every petty grain of sand
and every bone will be washed out to the sea
numbness unfurls
in each and every brain
the coast now is clear,
the air is thin
and as your own plot unfolds
it gets more difficult to bribe
the magistrates of your own psyche
what will you say
when all the lights go dim
and the cup of disappointment is full to the brim?
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
only in death shall we be sage
when every ocean has dessicated
and we shall quake, reading those words
on this book's last page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
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