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.
Mother
Tell your children not to walk my way
Tell your children not to hear my words
What they mean
What they say
Mother
Mother
Can you keep them in the dark for life?
Can you hide them from the waiting world?
Oh mother
Father
Gonna take your daughter out tonight
Gonna show her my world
Oh father
Not about to see your light
But if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
'Til you're bleeding
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's
Mother
Tell your children not to hold my hand
Tell your children not to understand
Oh mother
Father
Do you wanna bang heads with me?
Do you wanna feel everything?
Oh father
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
'Til you're bleeding
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's
Yeah
Not about to see your light
But if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
'Til you're bleeding
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
Whoa
Mother, yeah
Tell your children not to walk my way
Tell your children not to hear my words
What they mean
What they say
Mother
Mother
Can you keep them in the dark for life?
Can you hide them from the waiting world?
Oh mother
Father
Gonna take your daughter out tonight
Gonna show her my world
Oh father
Not about to see your light
But if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
'Til you're bleeding
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's
Mother
Tell your children not to hold my hand
Tell your children not to understand
Oh mother
Father
Do you wanna bang heads with me?
Do you wanna feel everything?
Oh father
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
'Til you're bleeding
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's
Yeah
Not about to see your light
But if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
'Til you're bleeding
Not about to see your light
And if you wanna find hell with me
I can show you what it's like
Whoa
Mother, yeah
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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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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
This song addresses the futility of censorship, and criticizes parents' insecurities and ultimate inability to censor things from their children; eventually they will grow up and everything they tried to hide from them will be undone.
The song may also be about parents being overprotective with dating, and holding their children back by not allowing them to date someone a few years older, in fear that something that's inevitable anyway may happen.
This song is not about religion in any way... I can only imagine that those that perceive this song in such a way perceive EVERY song in that way, and just hate religion in general. So they see anti-religion themes in literally EVERYTHING.
As a matter of fact I do think there is an explicit religious intent in the lyrics, more specifically In the chorus:<br /> <br /> "Not about to see your light<br /> But if you want to find hell with me<br /> I can show you what it's like<br /> Till you're bleeding"<br /> <br /> where "Not about to see your light" could be interpreted as salvation, religion, christianism, he is not willing to "save himself", "go to the light" of the father's/mother's religion. <br /> <br /> That sentence is followed by "But if you want to find hell with me", meaning he is, on the other hand, willing to show the father/mother what "his hell", his religion (satanism?) is like ("till you're bleeding").<br /> <br /> On the official music clip there's a scene where (Glen) Danzig is standing over a pentagram while he is singing the chorus, near the end of the clip, followed by a scene where he rips a chicken open, spilling blood over a girl standing on a "sacrificial altar" with "the daughter" (supposedly) standing beside him. At the very end of the clip, she smudges the chicken blood over the other girl's belly, and licks it.<br /> <br /> That said, don't get me wrong. I love this song! But I do confess it gets me a little restless because of the religion related stuff (being from a catholic upbringing and a fan of metal - I'm a walking contradiction).
@duckypwns I agree with both of you and think there may be undertones that he's a bad boy who curses, has premarital sex and refuses to "see the light" in regard to not doing those things, and that's about as much as the song is tied to religion. I don't think this song has satanic ties at all, I think it's definitely about trying to coddle your teens like children as long as you can to keep them innocent, only for them to become an adult and lose their innocence just like everyone else anyway.
What the hell is wrong with you people? this song isn't about religion, it's about censorship and discrimination of the Metal genre and all the people who likes it. By pinning this song as "anti-christian" you're proving that the stereotype hasn't changed much since '88.
Danzig recently appeared as a guest on That Metal Show and stated that this song is about the PMRC.
I think this song is a more subtle attack on the PMRC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center
A group of over protective parents who wanted to kill off rock music because they found it suggestive.
@Violentpacifist not just rock music. Rap was also heavily targeted
its about censorship
Also my friends dad was tellin us a story.
He used to go to concerts he is a big metal head, and he went to like an Ozzy concert or somethin and Danzig was opening up for him. And it was a smaller place, not a huge stadium. Some dude in the front yelled at Danzig to get off the stage and said Danzig sucks. And supposedly Danzig jumped off the stage walked up and beat the shit out of the guy and was arrested.
i know it's 11 years later, but thanks for sharing.
father...gonna take your daughter out tonight, gonna show her my world
much loved lullaby of mine
It's all about hypocrites.
One of my all time favorites.
I think it's about over protective parents really.
I loved this song since I saw it on Beavis and Butthead like 9 years ago.