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.
Hey! What's goin' on?
Hey! What went wrong?
Hey! I don't know why?
Hey! I might as well try! Buy
Well, I looked around this crazy place and tried to make some sense of it?
Robbed a bank and stole a car and tried to put some dents in it
AND everybody is playing games
I don't know what to make of it
Don't play your stupid games you know I don't need all that fucked up shit
No one ever told me I was gonna get older
Turned 21 and I thought my life was over
Took a long time to get where I am now
And I'm not gonna sit around wondering how, no!
Well I listen to your fuckin' shit I can't make any sense of it
'Cause what goes in does not come out, you've gotta put two cents in it
You're just a blob of fuckin' jell you're brain is floating in space
And if your brain was worth a quarter I'd get twenty-six cents back in change!
No one told me that the grass would be greener
I've done a lot of things since the last time that I seen her
No one ever told me it would be this way
That's why you can't make any sense out of anything I say!
My world is crumbling and I don't know what to do
It's falling down around me 'cause I'm thinking of you
If we take a look at our world today
Are our morals on decline or have we all gone insane?
Hey! What's goin' on?
Hey! What went wrong?
Hey! I don't know why?
Hey! I might as well try!
Hey! What went wrong?
Hey! I don't know why?
Hey! I might as well try! Buy
Well, I looked around this crazy place and tried to make some sense of it?
Robbed a bank and stole a car and tried to put some dents in it
AND everybody is playing games
I don't know what to make of it
Don't play your stupid games you know I don't need all that fucked up shit
No one ever told me I was gonna get older
Turned 21 and I thought my life was over
Took a long time to get where I am now
And I'm not gonna sit around wondering how, no!
Well I listen to your fuckin' shit I can't make any sense of it
'Cause what goes in does not come out, you've gotta put two cents in it
You're just a blob of fuckin' jell you're brain is floating in space
And if your brain was worth a quarter I'd get twenty-six cents back in change!
No one told me that the grass would be greener
I've done a lot of things since the last time that I seen her
No one ever told me it would be this way
That's why you can't make any sense out of anything I say!
My world is crumbling and I don't know what to do
It's falling down around me 'cause I'm thinking of you
If we take a look at our world today
Are our morals on decline or have we all gone insane?
Hey! What's goin' on?
Hey! What went wrong?
Hey! I don't know why?
Hey! I might as well try!
Lyrics submitted by antiheropunk
Hey Lyrics as written by Daniel Jay Lukacinsky
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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wahoooo! this song has so much skankability to it! i'm indeed enjoying it.
i love this song!! SUICID MACHINES RULE! their ska is soo awesome
haha i love this song, first time i ever heard it was when Hoax 3 came out, does anyone else remember it???
this song is so rad. i love the line "if your brain was worth a quarter i'd get 26 cents back in change"
wonderful song!!thumbs up!!!!
EXCELLENT! Yah I heard the Suicide Machines live in i thikn it was '96. They truely kick it up hardcore. Thay have this certain energy and it's awesome.
Such a great song. Love the obnoxious trombone throughout. Just listening its hard to hear a lot of the words, but the lyrics are great, too, about getting older and not question things. Such a kickass feel-good song.
I heard rumors that Streetlight Manifesto covered this at a stop on the Ska Is Dead Tour of 2005... I would have loved to have heard that!
australian band area 7 also play this song in 1998
who came first though? area 7 or suicide machines?
@ska ska ska ska this album is 1996<br />
This song fuckin' rulz'!! this is by far my fav S&M (suicide machines) song, its so foocking good, it has the most awesome ska beat, you just got to luv this song, it even gets me into a "good mood" everytime i her it, even if im deppressed and i hear this song it really cheers me up, it was awesome to see'em perform this song live..... wow.... s&m rulz'!! ^.^!!
Streetlight Manifesto occasionally covers this song live. Its as good, if not better than the original. I'd highly suggest looking it up on youtube.