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.
I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair
It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere
My hair, my hair
If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse
I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf
Of course, of course, of course
She's the smoke, she's dancin' fancy pirouettes
Swan diving off of the deep end of my tragic cigarette
She's steam laughing on the windowpanes
The never-ending swaying haze
Oh, that ever smiling maze
Oh, that ever smiling maze
A ballet
Everything's gone missing
I've lost more songs to floods
I can't prove this makes any sense but
I sure hope that it does
Perhaps I was born with curiosity
The likes of those of old crows
The likes of those of old crows
And oh, how the piano knows
The piano knows something I don't know
I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair
It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere
My hair, my hair
If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse
I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf
Of course, of course, of course
Of course, of course, of course
Of course, of course, of course
Of course
It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere
My hair, my hair
If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse
I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf
Of course, of course, of course
She's the smoke, she's dancin' fancy pirouettes
Swan diving off of the deep end of my tragic cigarette
She's steam laughing on the windowpanes
The never-ending swaying haze
Oh, that ever smiling maze
Oh, that ever smiling maze
A ballet
Everything's gone missing
I've lost more songs to floods
I can't prove this makes any sense but
I sure hope that it does
Perhaps I was born with curiosity
The likes of those of old crows
The likes of those of old crows
And oh, how the piano knows
The piano knows something I don't know
I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair
It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere
My hair, my hair
If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse
I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf
Of course, of course, of course
Of course, of course, of course
Of course, of course, of course
Of course
Lyrics submitted by devinxdisaster, edited by RespectTheBlade
The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know Lyrics as written by George Ross Brendon Urie
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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@ midnightinfernos: you are right about the frame story. I dont remember in which interview exaclty, they were talking about the songs and about this one they said they had two stories in one. So it should be interpreted like that.
"She’s the smoke, she’s dancing fancy pirouettes. Swan diving off of the deep end of my tragic cigarette. She’s steam, laughing on the window panes. The never-ending swaying haze, oh that ever smiling maze oh that ever smiling maze, a ballet."
When I first heard this verse, I imagined a girl dancing in some sort of old night club while a pianist (aka Brendon, my piano man :P ) was playing this song... but now I listen to it again and again and just imagine the cigarrete smoke lifting off the "end of his tragic cigarrete" fading away, making piruettes. But of course I dont think the guys in panic want to talk about smokes so literally, so now I think he really is talking about the inspiration itself. Inspiration being a "she" playing around him, smiling at him, vanishing when she feels like it, making him loose his ideas though "he's lost more to floods". The "curiousity of old crows", it think is about feeling that you were born in the wrong era, I'm not sure how to express that. And what the piano knows is how to express those ideas that "she", the inspiration, wont tell him.
"I can’t prove this makes any sense, but I sure hope that it does."
The first part, the "hairy" part... well, I haven't figured that one out yet... lol
ps. Sorry if there are grammatical mistakes, english is not my first language.