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.
Halls of the stone tower in the foothills
Why should we hide from anyone?
Held you in my arms for the first time that day
Felt like God's anointed when you didn't push me away
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Lean on the concrete walls in shadow
Why should we wait to throw the switch?
Felt your name burn in like a tattoo into my skin
Rain on the clay tiles all night
Your head nestled beneath my chin
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
In the lost age
Where the jewels hide
And sword sticks in the waiting stone
Still warm
Small chambers shrinking til they vanish
Wolves in the hallway gaining ground
Reach down to the moment when I should've said something true
Shadows and their sources now stealing away with you
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Why should we hide from anyone?
Held you in my arms for the first time that day
Felt like God's anointed when you didn't push me away
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Lean on the concrete walls in shadow
Why should we wait to throw the switch?
Felt your name burn in like a tattoo into my skin
Rain on the clay tiles all night
Your head nestled beneath my chin
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
In the lost age
Where the jewels hide
And sword sticks in the waiting stone
Still warm
Small chambers shrinking til they vanish
Wolves in the hallway gaining ground
Reach down to the moment when I should've said something true
Shadows and their sources now stealing away with you
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Gold light shining on so many things
In the age of kings
Lyrics submitted by mossushi
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Ok. Maybe I'm totally wrong here, but this song makes me think of someone who has found the one person for him, and then lost that person again. And the part about feeling like God's annointed when the person didn't push him away makes me think the narrator of the song has a large case of self-loathing.
But anyhow, he lost this person and now he's regretting it. I don't think the person died, really. I think maybe what happened was he didn't show them how much he truly cared, so they didn't know they wre his soulmate (As much as that word totally makes me gag)
But now he's looking back on it like one looks on a forgotten age. He's locked out the regrets, locked it out of his mind, but they're closing in, "The wolves in the hall"
And I think he's looking back at this whole relationship and wishing he'd told the person that he cared as much as he did.. "Something that was true."
And he won't get them back, Sword stuck into waiting stone...
Anyhow, just my two cents.
I agree with you, I just wanted to add that the sword is in the waiting stone, still warm. Somebody tried to pull it out, and failed. The sword in the stone metaphor is that the chosen one will be able to effortlessly lift the sword from the stone, and someone in this song is clearly not the chosen one. This all happens in the lost age, which suggests that this song refers to an event that happened a long time ago.<br /> <br /> I'm not sure I agree that the person is dead.