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.
I slept and I dreamed of a time long ago
I saw an army of rebels, dancing on air
I dreamed as I slept, I could see the campfires,
A song of the battle, that was born in the flames,
And the rebels were waltzing on air.
I danced with a girl to the tune of a waltz
That was written to be danced on the battlefield
I danced to the tune of a voice of a girl
A voice that called "Stand till we fall
We stand till all the boys fall."
As we danced came the news that the war was not won
5 armies were coming, with carrige and gun
Through the heart of the camp
Swept the news from the front
A cloud crossed the moon, a child cried for food
We knew the war could not be won.
So we danced with a rifle, to the rhythm of the gun
In a glade through the trees I saw my only one
Then the earth seemed to rise hell hot as the sun
The soldiers were dying, there was tune to the sighing.
The song was an old rebel one.
As the smoke of our hopes rose high from the field
My eyes played tricks through the moon and the trees
I slept as I dreamed I saw the army rise
A voice began to call, stand till you fall
The tune was an old rebel one.
I saw an army of rebels, dancing on air
I dreamed as I slept, I could see the campfires,
A song of the battle, that was born in the flames,
And the rebels were waltzing on air.
I danced with a girl to the tune of a waltz
That was written to be danced on the battlefield
I danced to the tune of a voice of a girl
A voice that called "Stand till we fall
We stand till all the boys fall."
As we danced came the news that the war was not won
5 armies were coming, with carrige and gun
Through the heart of the camp
Swept the news from the front
A cloud crossed the moon, a child cried for food
We knew the war could not be won.
So we danced with a rifle, to the rhythm of the gun
In a glade through the trees I saw my only one
Then the earth seemed to rise hell hot as the sun
The soldiers were dying, there was tune to the sighing.
The song was an old rebel one.
As the smoke of our hopes rose high from the field
My eyes played tricks through the moon and the trees
I slept as I dreamed I saw the army rise
A voice began to call, stand till you fall
The tune was an old rebel one.
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
this is gonna be my wedding music.
that's kinda morbid
I think it is just about fighting in Revalutions(did i spell that right?). I like the last verse about the army rising again. I think thats about how the liberals and rebels always win. Social change always in the long terms go left. 40 hour week all people over a certain age 18 or there abouts get the vote etc.
Also often in Revalutions people keep fighting like in Russia they revolted in 1905 lost then resulted in 1914 and won, the army rised. If people really care about what they're fighting for and people who are fighting against there own oppression care they will keep fighting till they all die.
Actually it's "the song"
Maybe about the spanish civil war (?) - actually, i don't think really it's about it :) Hope somebody's got a better theory...
Anyway, a great, great song. I'm disappointed there aren't more comments on it.
(by the way, there's an error in the lyrcis, it's "I danced to the sound of a voice of a girl", not "the tune". Ok, it's haggling :D )
This is one of the greatest songs ever the waltz was acctually composed by Fredrico Lorca a composer/playwrite who died in the spanish revolution under the revolutionary flag.
Actually is spelled Federico, not Fedrico, and his name was Federico GARCÃA Lorca, since in Spain people have two surnames. He wasn't a composer-hence, he didn't compose any waltz- he was a poet and a writer, one of the best in the 20th century. And he didn't die during any revolution, he died at the start of the Spanish Civil War. And he didn't die under the revolutionary flag-the revolutionaries, if you want to call them so, were the Spanish Army officers who decided to overthrow the former democratic republic government of Spain with a coup d'Etat which ended in a disgusting war- In fact, he didn't die under any flag. He was simply murdered by some illiterate soldiers who killed him because of being a homosexual. Its said that his last words, before being shot to death were "Don't shoot, I believe in the Virgin [Mary]" BTW, it reminds me much more of the fights in England during the 17th century
It is "the tune"