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.
Someone died for looking too far
While I was asleep in my house
A child was killed
I heard it from a friend
A war raged in a distant land
Cost me to linger on a piece of text
Someone died
Not here, never here
There was a fever
There is a failure
Are you a believer?
That someone lied to you
You hold it closer to your chest
There was a meaning for this test
But you forgot and it’s gone now
You were controlled somehow
There was a mean time
An invitation of sorts
I remember life I
I was sick with sorrow
I’d fallen asleep
And dreamt of my sins here
It was your turn
Adamant smiled and said "Thank you…"
There was a sickness right in the family
While I shuttered in the cold
Woman hanged for her sins while I cribbed my eye
An old man drowned in this life herd as I made amends with my fathers
Someone died
Not here, never here
While I was asleep in my house
A child was killed
I heard it from a friend
A war raged in a distant land
Cost me to linger on a piece of text
Someone died
Not here, never here
There was a fever
There is a failure
Are you a believer?
That someone lied to you
You hold it closer to your chest
There was a meaning for this test
But you forgot and it’s gone now
You were controlled somehow
There was a mean time
An invitation of sorts
I remember life I
I was sick with sorrow
I’d fallen asleep
And dreamt of my sins here
It was your turn
Adamant smiled and said "Thank you…"
There was a sickness right in the family
While I shuttered in the cold
Woman hanged for her sins while I cribbed my eye
An old man drowned in this life herd as I made amends with my fathers
Someone died
Not here, never here
Lyrics submitted by DreamingInTheÆther
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