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.
He's a flatland farmer
Who flat picks and old guitar
Yeah he's a flatland farmer
He flat picks and old guitar
He don't make no money
But he can out-pick them Nashville stars
Yeah the people come in pick-ups
They travel in from miles around
Ah the people come in pick-ups
They travel in from miles around
Yeah they park in his front yard...sit on his ground
An they eat fried chicken to that flatland sound
Eat a little,
Well they call mighty Nashville
Music City U-S-A
Yeah they call that god-all-mighty Nashville
Music City U-S-A
Ah but get out of the city to where the farmer plays
An you're into real music country without them city ways
Get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
Get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
An closest you'll want to any Music Row
Is a long dirt furrow where cotton grows
Grow,
Get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
Yeah, get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
He don't make no money aw
But I'll tell, that boy can
Out sing
Out pick
Out play
Out drink
Out pray, and out lay
Any of them Nashville stars
Who flat picks and old guitar
Yeah he's a flatland farmer
He flat picks and old guitar
He don't make no money
But he can out-pick them Nashville stars
Yeah the people come in pick-ups
They travel in from miles around
Ah the people come in pick-ups
They travel in from miles around
Yeah they park in his front yard...sit on his ground
An they eat fried chicken to that flatland sound
Eat a little,
Well they call mighty Nashville
Music City U-S-A
Yeah they call that god-all-mighty Nashville
Music City U-S-A
Ah but get out of the city to where the farmer plays
An you're into real music country without them city ways
Get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
Get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
An closest you'll want to any Music Row
Is a long dirt furrow where cotton grows
Grow,
Get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
Yeah, get with the flatland farmer
Who flat picks an old guitar
He don't make no money aw
But I'll tell, that boy can
Out sing
Out pick
Out play
Out drink
Out pray, and out lay
Any of them Nashville stars
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Flatland Farmer Lyrics as written by Terry Allen
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