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.
A long summers day
Stretching out the cold
Searching for the answers
And some say I'm not alone
Could you tell me, where I might find fallen horses?
Their spirits they fly
Blinded by the whiteness
Staring at the sun
I'm wishing that I had wings
So that I could become one
Would you help me if I wanted to die?
I could ride off with horses tonight
Tell me, why?
Why, oh, why?
I said, why?
Why, oh, why?
And now that I've arrived here
I know I'm not alone
All my friends among me
Tell me, welcome home
But could you tell me, where I might find
The one I'm looking for?
'Cause her wings have arrived
Tell me, why?
Why, oh, why?
I said, why?
Why, oh, why?
Tell me, why? Why? Why? Why? Oh, why?
Tell me, why? Why? Why? Why? Oh, why?
Stretching out the cold
Searching for the answers
And some say I'm not alone
Could you tell me, where I might find fallen horses?
Their spirits they fly
Blinded by the whiteness
Staring at the sun
I'm wishing that I had wings
So that I could become one
Would you help me if I wanted to die?
I could ride off with horses tonight
Tell me, why?
Why, oh, why?
I said, why?
Why, oh, why?
And now that I've arrived here
I know I'm not alone
All my friends among me
Tell me, welcome home
But could you tell me, where I might find
The one I'm looking for?
'Cause her wings have arrived
Tell me, why?
Why, oh, why?
I said, why?
Why, oh, why?
Tell me, why? Why? Why? Why? Oh, why?
Tell me, why? Why? Why? Why? Oh, why?
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Techno Ted
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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.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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One of the more gorgeous songs I've ever heard of. This album, and this song specifically went under the MTV radar under-detected and underappreciated. This song has got to deal with death, the unknown, the fear and longing for it, the sense of being at piece with it in a weird and incomprehendable way. When I hear this song I picture a unicorn and a sunset. Somehow a person of the equivalent-of dreaming of death and a better place. To truly liberate oneself from being stuck to this earth.
@bluergriff - Maybe she didn't get into the same place?
This song is beautiful. I agree, it's hard to imagine how it can be so under-appreciated. I don't know anyone my age who listens to this band, I've been listening to this CD ever since I was little. I just see it in a different perspective now, because I can understand what the lyrics mean.
Death and how hard it can be to have a loved one die.
wow...this is gorgeous. i dont see why this is so underappreciated.
Mmm. Love it. To me, it sounds like someone wondering what death is like, and asking a fallen comrade of some kind what to expect.
Yeah this song is definitely a gem from astro lounge that most people bypass. I'd say it might even be best on the album.
When I was little I thought it was about a guy who was like having a life crisis or something and went off (I got a lot of outdoorsy/time passing imagery in the beginning, I imagined him hiking out alone, the sun and temperatures/colors) to discover himself and his purpose in life, and then he missed his friends and family so he came home, having realized that they were his purpose in life. Now, I'm thinking the horses/wings/spirits stuff is about death. He's in mourning because all the people close to him seem to be dying or drifting away and he feels alone because of this, and he wants to be with them (dead), but he eventually accepts that the one who died (some lady he loved?) has passed on and is an angel, ala a spirit who'll watch over him to make him feel less alone? This is definitely the vaguest Smash Mouth song. I'm glad to see so many other people enjoy this. Very intense.
Personally I believe he is asking for death so that a friend of his may live, but that's just me.
It certainly sounds as if someone wanted to die, a mercy kill more accurately
Someone having lost a lot of his friends and a special woman. He's hoping he can die as well, becoming a fallen horse like them and meeting them again. The one thing that is puzzling to me is that in the end his friends are there when he arrived in heaven, but the woman he is looking for isn't there… what happened?