• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Obsolete - Saves The Day
• Obsolete - Fear Factory
• Obsolete - Lee Aaron
• Obsolete - Toyah
• Obsolete - Heavenwood
• Obsolete - Mute Math
• Obsolete - MC Solaar
• Obsolete - Magne F
• Obsolete - In Dying Arms
• Obsolete - Overmars
• Obsolete - De Vision
• Obsolete - Fallenlight

Every day seems the same to me
I sit around and think about how alone I feel
then I wind up rather enjoying loneliness because it's the comfort of being sad-
sometimes it feels so right
and sometimes I'd like to be around no one for ten straight years
but I know this feeling can't bring me places
and I know I'm losing lots of ground
but to keep up means to get up and why does it have to be
the world keeps on changing while I just stay the same?
I feel like being down doesn't mean enough to anyone anymore
and I guess the world has made emotion obsolete
and I don't think I feel the same 'cause after all
who says what happy really means?
Tonight I will redefine everything and tomorrow I will start in on my better days
and so each their own definition of happiness
but no one ever reaches it so I don't think I'll breathe that way
but happiness is when there's nowhere left to go
because in that state of mind there is no state of self

Nothing is the way it seems
Discerning man from machines now
Dominate as to erase
Wiping man off Earth's face now
Defaced by all inept justice
Shamed by the mental abuses
Branded "inferior weakness"
Ordered to cease and desist!
Man is obsolete!
Our world, obsolete!
Man is obsolete!
Erased, extinct!
Obsolete!
Fueling engines through deceit
To eradicate humanity
Defaced by all inept justice
Shamed by the mental abuses
Branded "inferior weakness"
Ordered to cease and desist!
Man is obsolete!
Our world, obsolete!
Man is obsolete!
Erased, extinct!

written by Karen, Don H., Don B., Don S.
running time - 4:00
©1996 2preciious
Lyin' on 'er back high on twenny inch smack
Too much thinkin' kills ya
Talk show trash, Tokyo jet crash sex line and Godzilla
A voice mail love buy a Rubber Maid glove
And keep the message clean
Beauty gone bad sells a lot o' cream ads
Designer Vaseline
Aw the fall out
Yeah the fall out...
Propaganda slob and a technicolour god
Sellin' sixty dollar bibles
Four wheel drive an' a mail order bride
A matter of survival
3-D hips baby starlet blue lips
She slimmed down for the part
But Alice fell prey when she gave 'er heart away
To the hole in her arm
Aw the fall out
(Ah-ah...)
Yeah the fall out...
Aw the fall out..
(Ah-ah...)
Yeah the fall out...
Give me sedation...
So I can detoxify...
Brain dead masturbation..
The animated, automated lie
Prozac morphine underground mainstream
Obsolete, ate the other white meat
Therapy digress universal drug test
An' beauty gone bad sells a lot o' cream ads
Aw the fall out
(Ah-ah...)
Yeah the fall out...
Aw the fall out..
(Ah-ah...)
Yeah the fall out...
{At this point (3:12) Karen begins
chanting something in the background
which sounds like a re-arrangement of
the lyrics or possibly alternate lyrics -
very difficult to make anything out.}
Aw the fall out..
(Ah-ah...)
Yeah the fall out...
Aw the fall out
(Ah-ah...)
Yeah the fall out...
Aw the fall out
(Ah-ah...)

(Words Willcox/Music Bogen,Glockler)
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
The obsolete
We'll always exist
We're death denied
Penetrate your walls and slip inside
We'll split your persona
See your mind divide
Pull you apart
Take your mind for a ride
boy child
girl child
Discover their lips
Discover scent
What makes life tick
boy child
girl child
Discover new tricks
new reason for fun
Another law to run from
We scanned their skies
With stardust eyes
And kissed their rainbow minds
So we jumped right down
And played the clown
To their glittering kind
They clapped and cheered
It was mighty weird
But we had to go back home
So we went to the ship
For our cosmic trip
Right through their Dome
boy child
girl child
Discover their lips
Discover scent
What makes life tick
boy child
girl child
Discover new tricks
new reason for fun
Another law to run from
With reference to the futures
We're just time troubled creatures
With reference to the futures
We're just God's forgotten sons
With reference to your mothers
We're the Devil's wanton beasts
With reference to your brothers
Your sister's pretty neat
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate
The obsolete
Obsolete
We're the obsolete
In the dawn
Where fire and darkness meet
The electric chair
And death will greet
To obviate

When...
When is tomorrow?
As the day seems night and the mask still in my hand
Words...
Where was your guidance
In the night, the wounds I bleed for the sins you need
Meet me through the hollow
Remember yesterday
As I'm painted in black
The wounds I bleed for the sins you need
Obsolete
Today I forgive you... But tomorrow no
The pain I'm living now
As I faint in the snow
The pain is haunting me as the wishes come
The name of the Nazarene... obsolete
Meet me through the hollow
Today I forgive you... But tomorrow no
The pain I'm living now
As I faint in the snow

And we stare at t

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'

The cella’s full of wine
You can no longer drink
Your head is full of thoughts
You don’t allow yourself to think.
The cupboard’s full of canned fruit,
Vegetables and meat
Everything is damaged goods,
Like sour grapes gone sweet.
The drawer’s full of letters
Overdue to be sent
Stamps no longer valid
And words no longer meant
You saved them for a rainy day
You waited for too long
You thought that saving memories
was the thing that made me strong
Obsolete
Like the autumn leaves on the street
They’re obsolete
Like the morning dew beneath your feet
The closet’s bursting at the seams
With clothes you do not wear
You need to get your life fixed
But a part of you don’t care
You’ve done everything so right
But now it seems all wrong
You played so damn hard
That it turned to a song
You saved them for a rainy day
You waited for too long
You thought that saving memories
was the thing that made me strong
But the years are filling out
With the chances you don’t take
Your heart is pounding
And you cannot stand the ache
You’re obsolete
Like the autumn leaves on the street
Obsolete

I was raised to be strong
Yet, I stand here a man;
Alone on knees
When did I find the will to disclose these wounds?
Another burnt display of affection, dead to the grave;
You were the only one I had;
Now who am I to confide in?
With these tears I will wash away my frustration
I will wash away my memories;
But you refuse to be let a stray
Who the fuck are you supposed to be to me?
Vividly I remember how things used to be
You said this would never change;
I am nothing but feeling, but I will not beg;
Every thought of you is another regret to be had;
And every thought is another feeling
But do I have what it takes to erase the past?

I close my eyes on monochrome grey skies
A backdrop forever soiled with a feeling of futility
Excreta of an empty life where habits breed the Alienating
I foresee nothing but ordinary renunciation
Your eyes open on this gangrenous set
Nothing to kowtow you, but I can already picture us dead
Such assurance emanating from you,
What kills me makes you stronger
Within the opaqueness of my servitude,
My reddest wrath turns colourless
No colour with enough heat to disguise abomination
It’s hanging in the balance, right inside,
Where nothing can appease aversion
Let’s fight our frigid fate with an obsolete optimism

The dragon heart
For what has once been you there's nothing left now
Got to bow down
You're torn apart
Seem to be here but yet you're fading away
Silent decay
You've got to confess
That your life is a mess
From what I have told you
From what I have said
All that you let me see
The worst for me to believe
You came to go down with
Nothing but defeat
Cause you're obsolete
Role model for
Another generation to take things on
Disposable ones
Running on repeat
An empty tape distorted background noise
A thrown-away toy
Bent nearly broke
That's what they did to you but not anymore
You are long gone and leave an emptiness

Buried by time and dust i am
Hated forsaken for all time
Obsolete
Old and rusty
Obsolete
Simple and ugly
Damned in any life i am
Not to serve nor to please
Raised as risen dead i am
Walk the earth with the absence of light