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've got what I want
Oh yeah!
It's only for the night
And I will give it back tomorrow I swear
She can barely breathe
Don't stare
I know the dress is tight
But it was all I had to wear
Give me what I need
Please share
You know it's only right
And I would never lie to you
I wouldn't dare
[Chorus]
I made a promise to myself
I wouldn't start with anyone else but
You know how it is with these promises
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made to be broken in two
Sometimes the only thing to do
Oh no!
It's all coming back
How I came to in a sticky three-day hole
Didn't see the sign
Go slow
Too busy tuning static on the radio
She hissed it in a song
Don't go
It always fades to black
But that's why I love the trip
It's so inevitable
[Chorus]
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made to be less than they seem
Whenever you've got what I need
And you've got what I need
For service with a smile
I have to walk in on my hands
And roll for free
You say it's all the same
Ennui
You're not the real snow white
The real snow white is on my knee I didn't need to get
Id
It's simply minimum height
And getting all dressed up
In seven ways to please
[Chorus]
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made to be broken one day
If there's no time to get away
Uh-oh!
She wasn't made to shine
She was really only ever made to glow
I left her in the dark
No show
Quiet sucking on a line
It was a tricky gun to load
And I didn't get to fire
Hi-ho!
She's off to work for time
I should have finished out with higher
Up than low
[Chorus]
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made before right becomes wrong
Whenever you've got what I want
And you've got what I want
Oh yeah!
It's only for the night
And I will give it back tomorrow
I swear
Oh yeah!
It's only for the night
And I will give it back tomorrow I swear
She can barely breathe
Don't stare
I know the dress is tight
But it was all I had to wear
Give me what I need
Please share
You know it's only right
And I would never lie to you
I wouldn't dare
[Chorus]
I made a promise to myself
I wouldn't start with anyone else but
You know how it is with these promises
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made to be broken in two
Sometimes the only thing to do
Oh no!
It's all coming back
How I came to in a sticky three-day hole
Didn't see the sign
Go slow
Too busy tuning static on the radio
She hissed it in a song
Don't go
It always fades to black
But that's why I love the trip
It's so inevitable
[Chorus]
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made to be less than they seem
Whenever you've got what I need
And you've got what I need
For service with a smile
I have to walk in on my hands
And roll for free
You say it's all the same
Ennui
You're not the real snow white
The real snow white is on my knee I didn't need to get
Id
It's simply minimum height
And getting all dressed up
In seven ways to please
[Chorus]
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made to be broken one day
If there's no time to get away
Uh-oh!
She wasn't made to shine
She was really only ever made to glow
I left her in the dark
No show
Quiet sucking on a line
It was a tricky gun to load
And I didn't get to fire
Hi-ho!
She's off to work for time
I should have finished out with higher
Up than low
[Chorus]
Made in the heat of the moment
They're made before right becomes wrong
Whenever you've got what I want
And you've got what I want
Oh yeah!
It's only for the night
And I will give it back tomorrow
I swear
Lyrics submitted by topside, edited by GwiberWyrdd
The Real Snow White Lyrics as written by Porl Thompson Jason Toop Cooper
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"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"
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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.
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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I was just listening to this song and puzzling over the lyrics (as I always do). I love them but find them consistently baffling. I like certain phrases in particular, like "when I came to in a sticky three-day hole" (reminds me of a couple of occasions back at university...though I'm not sure any of those could qualify as "three-day!") and "I didn't need to get ID, it's simply minimum height" (another one that brings back those university parties, where nobody bothered even pretending to be enforcing the drinking age), plus all the Snow White references (some of them to the Disney version, as peapod05 notes). What it all means has me completely confused, though. (Obviously that math PhD doesn't really mean I'm all that brilliant! People are way too impressed by that.)
I think it could be drugs, like some people I've talked to (and obviously some here too) think, but it could also be something to do with sex (isn't everything, after all? <g>).
A lot of Cure songs are in the first person but obviously don't represent a perspective that RS agrees with. Just about the only thing I can say for certain about this song is that it's definitely one of them (so no worries, seanstuarthome!).
The Cure has been my favourite band since I first discovered them, in 1987 or '88 (it was sometime after (Kiss Me)^3 came out — I heard the song "How Beautiful You Are" and bugged my mother until she agreed to take me to the record store the next day so I could get the album — but before Disintegration) but I've been impressed by a lot of their later stuff too (post-Wild Mood Swings). I know a number of people who love their earlier stuff but think they've been going downhill since sometime in the '90s or so. I disagree. I'm always so amazed when I think about how long they've been living this exhausting lifestyle (touring, super high expectations, etc.) and still seem to have so much energy and creativity and stuff.