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.
Don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You paint yourself white
And fill up with noise
There'll be something missing
Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails
So don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
Ooh, you'll go to Hell
For what your dirty mind is thinking
They're not gonna happen
You paint yourself white
And fill up with noise
There'll be something missing
Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails
So don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
Ooh, you'll go to Hell
For what your dirty mind is thinking
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1."I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state."
These lyrics are the powers that be talking. That's what the institutions stuff into your heads, that you can't change the world around you. That message is one you've gotta fight. Thats how I see it anyway. The song still drives me to tears.
i've never thought about the lyrics being from that viewpoint but it makes perfect sense, and yes it is so emotional that the first time i heard this song i sobbed uncontrollably<br /> <br /> <br />
@WillAndWind I now this is ~12 years later, but I think this interpretation for me is by far the strongest, I think there is so much anguish and resistance in the last line it's like he doesn't want himself to be heard, I think this song has many meanings though. Identity is for sure one of them.