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.
You're too far away
Too far away to touch
And this mother's love inside me
Hurts too much
Prettily waving
Playing on the sand
Dreaming of everything
Dancing
Dancing in our hands
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dizzy, dizzy, dizzy
As I speak
Like a tumbling cat
I watch in fascination
Like a vampire bat
Don't do it, don't do it
Don't do it, don't do it
Don't give it away
We'll use it up tomorrow
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
Rest your head
Oh, just put it outside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time love died
The night
The dream
The time our love died
We pushed it in our mouths
Pushed it deep inside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time love died
The night
The dream
The time our love died
Too far away to touch
And this mother's love inside me
Hurts too much
Prettily waving
Playing on the sand
Dreaming of everything
Dancing
Dancing in our hands
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dizzy, dizzy, dizzy
As I speak
Like a tumbling cat
I watch in fascination
Like a vampire bat
Don't do it, don't do it
Don't do it, don't do it
Don't give it away
We'll use it up tomorrow
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
If we don't use it today
Rest your head
Oh, just put it outside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time love died
The night
The dream
The time our love died
We pushed it in our mouths
Pushed it deep inside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time love died
The night
The dream
The time our love died
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Mountain Song
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
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Amazing
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
Mother who has a miscarriage, and has a dream before it happens.
'You're too far away'- she cannot physically touch her child, which is in her stomach, as she'd like to. 'This mother's love inside me hurts too much.' Referring to the pain of the child kicking against her and the want to actually touch and know the child she bears.
'Prettily waving/ Playing on the sand'- Her vision of what she will do with this child of hers.
'Dizzy dizzy dizzy As I speak Like a tumbling cat.' She witnesses, in her dream, the child die just as it dies in her stomach. On the beach, it falls over even as she speaks to it of her dreams and plans for it.
'I watch in fascination Like a vampire bat.' Since she's in a dream state, she doesn't yet realise the implications. However, as cats eat bats (theoretically), she is nevertheless being eaten by the pain of seeing her dream-child in pain. She's a vampire because her own body is eating the child within her and killing it.
'Don't do it don't do it Don't give it away We'll use it up tomorrow If we don't use it today.' She's telling the child not to die. She's already thinking in mother-talk, using 'tomorrow, love' as a way of deterring the child from ending its own life.
'Rest your head Oh just put it outside' In the dream, her miscarriage is being seen blatantly. She imagines giving birth, and the pain, and she wants the child to come out and rest its head in the outside world, however:
'All wrapped up in ribbons' Refers to the blood around its premature face as it's born.
The next stanza refers to her waking up and realising the reality of the loss.