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.
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
This quiet company
This quiet company
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
This quiet company
This quiet company
This quiet company
And I can't fall asleep
Without a little help
It takes a while to settle down
My shivered bones
Until the panic's out
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
Company
This quiet company
This quiet company
But I won't follow you
Into the rabbit hole
I said I would but then I saw
Your shivered bones
They didn't want me to
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
This quiet company
This quiet company
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
This quiet company
This quiet company
This quiet company
And I can't fall asleep
Without a little help
It takes a while to settle down
My shivered bones
Until the panic's out
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
Company
This quiet company
This quiet company
But I won't follow you
Into the rabbit hole
I said I would but then I saw
Your shivered bones
They didn't want me to
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
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Terrible Love Lyrics as written by Aaron Brooking Dessner Matthew Donald Berninger
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For me, it reminds me of leaving the Mormon church. To any Mormons out there, I apologize and hope I don't offend.
I suffered so much being a member of that church. Like any religion it has its upsides and can accomplish beautiful things. But it has cultish aspects that totally screwed with my head growing up.
I denied who I was as a person and who I could love because of a fear of disappointing my parents and dealing with the criticism of everyone around me. When I sinned (I'm gay) , I HATED myself. I would go into repentance for so long and try to forgive myself and then I'd have a sinful thought and I'd go through the process all over again. Maybe this wasn't the church's intention, but its the way it was for me. My personality exploited me when it came to the church members' already very.....dedicated nature.
When the curtain was finally lifted for me, (Its a long story how) not long after I finally came to grips with my sexuality. I was walking away from how I grew up and how I'd always thought.
I realized that the love I had shared with the church was a "terrible love". It was a path with my demons and my spiders and yet I was walking straight in. It was a doomed place to be, I could NEVER be the perfection I had tried so hard to obtain. I decided I wasn't going to follow my family down the rabbit hole that lead me to my own insanity, just like how the rabbit hole lead to Alice's from Alice in Wonderland. I was stepping back from that spider filled path.
"It takes an ocean not to break" That makes me think that it took more strength than I had not to break with everything I was told to do. (Never be married, never love, see the internet for specific rules in the Mormon lifestyle.) I couldn't do it. It wasn't humanly possible.
Some can. Some can't. Some will, some won't. It was a terrible love that I had to give up, just like an abusive relationship.