Obsolete lyrics

Artist  : Mc Solaar 
Song : Obsolete
 


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been replaced by (...)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'