Obsolete Lyrics
Verse One:
English French
* Formerly the clercs Naguere les
concierges were in vogue etaient en vogue From now on they've Desormais
on les a been replaced by (...) remplaces par des (...) In my town there
were Dans ma ville il n'y no parking meters avait pas de parcmetre I used
to see Je voyais des ouvriers workers eating manger des sandwichs a omelet
sandwiches l'omelette (is omelet = to beatten eggs ?) The past comes back
to my mind Le passe me revient like a cup-and-ball game comme un
bilboquet The presence of an omnipresent La presence d'un passe past
hasn't gone omnipresent n'est pas passee The Halles, supplanted Les Halles,
supplantees by the (Coste ?) par le (Coste ?) The allegory of the
'madeleines' L'allegorie des * (of Proust / which makes him remember scenes
of the past) swifts away at the madeleines file a la speed of Prost
vitesse de Prost * (AlainProst, formula 1 racing car world champion) The
air was pure there, L'air y etait pur, Paris more beautiful Paris plus
beau Now, the subway fare rises Desormais le ticket de like the metro
augmente comme le number of cars nombre d'autos. Oh shit, there's no more
Oh shit, a la tele speakerine on TV y a plus de speakrine There are
B-series movies Y a des films de serie that I estimate B que j'estime
a at four cents quatre centimes (...) gives me two, (...) me file
deux, three little coins trois piecette That I peep, and my intellect Que
je mate, et mon intellect find that they are obsolete constate qu'ils sont
obsoletes
Verse Two:
Obsolete, but with much style, Obsolete,
mais stylee, the sentence that follows la phrase qui suivra The man who
picks up the L'homme qui capte le (guy) and whose (mec) et dont le
nom name has a double a possede un double a The fence (...) crossbow La
barriere (...) arbalete Which (...) Qui (...) Which is (the approach) Qui
est (l'abord) for decades depuis des decennies It runs off with on my soul
Une main basse sur mon ame so that he slows down pour qu'il avance au
ralenti But the great manitou, Mais le grand manitou, handles everything,
(...) manie tout, (...) Of the masks, Des masques la musique the music has
cloaked the place, a masque la place, one mortgages then on hypotheque
puis * Writes down in italics Inscrit en italiques * on his agenda sur
son agenda * The top list of the (stuffs) Le top des (trucs ?) he doesn't
like qu'il n'aime pas In brief, to be Bref, pour etre clair clear-cut et
net * the belly-tail (????) Le ventre-queue * is accompanied by
s'accompagne * an ear plug (used by TV hosts to get info) de
l'oreillette Exactly like, to my ears, Tout comme a mes 'my fly' [of
trousers] oreilles, 'ma braguette' Teams up and rhymes S'acoquine et
rime with 'obsolete' avec 'obsolete'
Verse Three:
Obsolete is
also Obsolete est aussi the teaser who l'allumeuse qui Wore a hair-net
and Portait des bas resilles * bas =pantyhose stenched patshleaf et
empestait le patchouli For done services Pour des services she says to me
rendus elle me dit ''I pay you in kind'' ''Je te paye en nature'' And I
stay stoic Et je reste stoique when she holds out jams quand elle me
tend to me des confitures This is forgotten when Ceci est oublie
quand on the month of december au mois de decembre She telephones and
says Elle me telephone et me ''Come pick me up'' dit ''Passe me
prendre'' In brief, I abuse of her Bref, j'en abuse with a delectable
feeling avec delectation (...) like some mead, (...) comme de
l'hydromel, I am in affection je suis en affection * Then i slide,
intrude Puis me glisse, m'immisce between the smooth thighs entre les
cuisses of the miss lisses de la miss Her eyes wrinkle, Ses yeux se
plissent, et and she says ''Stop your vice'' elle dit ''Stop ton vice'' I
am like a ball, Je suis comme une balle, she plays the role of elle joue le
role * the racket d'une raquette The luller [!], teaser, L'endormeuse,
allumeuse, fancies herself for a starlette se prend pour une
starlette Message which, in the 'cinematheques' Desuettes, sont
classees Fallen in disuse, are classified in dans les series B, B-series,
at the department 'obsolete' au rayon 'obsolete'
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