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.
Oh I wish I was the sparrow in your kid's eye
That could fly above this summer all day long
On an island in the heart he has to carry
Past the many you have let into your song
And I said, "Oh my Lord, why am I not strong?"
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
Like the wheel that will take you home
And in the forest someone is whispering to a tree now
This is all I am so please don't follow me
And it's your brother in the shaft that I'm swinging
Please let the kindness of forgetting set me free
And he said, "Oh my Lord, why am I not strong?"
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
Like the wheel that will take you home
And on this Sunday someone's sittin' down to wonder
Where the hell among these mountains will I be?
There's a cloud behind the cloud to which I'm yelling
Oh, I could hear you sneak around so easily
And I said, "Oh my Lord, why am I not strong?"
Like the branch that keeps hangman hanging on
Like the branch that will take me home
That could fly above this summer all day long
On an island in the heart he has to carry
Past the many you have let into your song
And I said, "Oh my Lord, why am I not strong?"
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
Like the wheel that will take you home
And in the forest someone is whispering to a tree now
This is all I am so please don't follow me
And it's your brother in the shaft that I'm swinging
Please let the kindness of forgetting set me free
And he said, "Oh my Lord, why am I not strong?"
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
Like the wheel that will take you home
And on this Sunday someone's sittin' down to wonder
Where the hell among these mountains will I be?
There's a cloud behind the cloud to which I'm yelling
Oh, I could hear you sneak around so easily
And I said, "Oh my Lord, why am I not strong?"
Like the branch that keeps hangman hanging on
Like the branch that will take me home
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Like the Wheel Lyrics as written by Kristian Matsson
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The thing that blew this song wide open for me was thinking that perhaps the verses aren't in chronological order. I believe the story starts with the first verse, with the second being a kind of epilogue, and the third is actually the climax, which is why it's put at the end.
The second verse is about the author's brother cutting down the tree on which the author hanged himself. The brother whispers out a paraphrase of the suicide note left for him to find:
"This is all I am, so please don't follow me."
This is the author's conclusion after sitting down to wonder "where the hell among these mountains" he is- or rather what he is. "Please don't follow me" appears to be a plea for the brother to not follow suit.
"It's your brother in the shaft that I'm a-swingin'"
As MelleB90 pointed out, the brother now is swinging an ax, noting the irony that his brother hung from the tree whose brother is in the shaft that will cut it down, echoing the pain haunting him by his brother's suicide.
"Please let the kindness of forgetting set me free."
The brother wants to forget what he's seen and done involving this tree, so he cuts it down.
This also explains why the author says,
"HE said, 'Oh, my lord, why am I not strong? Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on? Like the wheel that will take you home'"
The author is echoed here in his desire to save his lost love from the path she's on- the brother wishes the exact same thing. Families of those who commit suicide often have no idea there's such a burden on those that they end up losing.
sbowman nailed it, but melleb90's comment got me thinking, and this is what I came up with. Beautifully written and painfully tragic song.
@NovemberBlue I think you nailed it. <br /> There's also a wheel in buddhism, that keeps people repeating their steps. <br /> "that keeps travelers traveling on" could mean that helps travellers moving forward, but it can also mean "that stops travellers from moving on". (another turn on the wheel).