Obsolete Lyrics

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been replaced by (...)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'