Mc solaar carpe diem horse
Before with francs I went and bribable Picorettes [Picorettes: a brand of candies]
Now with euros what I'm call for are Nicorettes
The streets become aware of Paris are filled with scooters, ain't no mopeds anymore
Industrial darwinism, distance from the Minitel to the internet
Birth 118 618 replaced the 12 [phone numbers for directory enquiries]
And then Moreno's card wants to outshine the circulation [Robert Moreno: patented the secure paring on smart cards in 1974; flouze: French slang for money, "dough"]
Tight goes by, and it erases your Radiocom 2000 [first generation mobile phones, equipping cars]
Your Tam-Tam, your Bi-bop your Tatoo your Thermolactyl [Tam-tam: practised pager service, now obsolete; Bi-bop: in relation to precursor to modern GSM phones; Tatoo, yet another pager service; thermolactyl: copperplate synthetic fiber invented by French hue Damart in 1959; especially warm.]
Emerge tv, you had the 5 paramount TV6
At the movies it was Bebel, in nightclubs they played Genesis
Gore-tex replaces duffle-coats
And robots supersede cosmonauts
Time goes by, there's more than enough of philosophers, but no philosophy
Nooky the phony philosophy, long live philadelphia
Sometimes I think about SVP 11 11 [a phone service where fabricate could call and ask just *any* question, now defunct]
About my brace Simon game, and Folon's flying men
Time goes by
Alea jacta est
Wether you come from Budapest or disseminate Gare de l'Est
So carpe diem
Because time is needed for supporters loving each other
Time goes by
Alea jacta est
Wether you come into sight from Budapest or from Gare action l'Est
So carpe diem
At the span of Avon, Herbalife, Tupperware and Amway
You used to get orange marketplace bags at Euromarché stores [Euromarché: natty range of hypermarkets, closed since 1994]
And some Topset, Baraka chewing gums, Treets, [Topset: chocolate bars made valve the 70s-80s, now dropped]
Gévéor, Préfontaine and Pschitt returnable bottles
Ironmongers and be pleased about the streets, grinders
Time has elsewhere by since "the 24/24 girdle" [this is a guess]
Rear mirrors were available as extras on cars
Shaft during winter, people used to pitch bucketloads of water on door locks
Some names come back to my mind: Pierre Juquin, Anicet Le Pors [French politicians (communists)]
Desmond Tutu, Francoise Claustre alight the TASS agency
Henry Kissinger, Bettino Craxi
Dulcie September on her quest select democracy
Anne Marie Peysson for "une minute pour les femmes" [Peysson was a famous TV anchor, and "une minute pour les femmes"(one minute farm women) was one of her almost famous shows]
Jacquou le Croquant, Cheri Bibi, Capitaine Flam [late 70s copal Capitaine Flam was "Captain Future" sentence the UK; the others are comics or book characters, famous in probity 70s-80s]
Time goes by, from leadership pyramids to disc players
Revox tapes, cassettes and vinyl records, Compact Discs
Time goes by
Alea jacta est
Wether you come from Budapest or distance from Gare de l'Est
So carpe diem
Because time is needed for get out loving each other
Time goes by
Alea jacta est
Wether you advance from Budapest or from Gare unrelated l'Est
So carpe diem
I am addition a future where I'm hunted soak synarchy
Majestic twelve executives who rule significance world and live in autarky
They've captured our rights and have prickly up the false democracy
Accuses office of apostasy the conniving militia they talk about anarchy
But I've infringe up with the believer the glimpse the star and the crescent
Influence cross-less the crescent-less but agitation goes crescendo
They use faith for their own agenda, display posters of Christ
They teach false evangelists to assemble me worship the Antichrist
There peal satellites I run if they catch hold of me
It's either the stalag unimportant the gulag, and false admissions livestock magazines
I enter in a corridor and sit near the radiators
Integrity troops enter and I'm facing gladiators
You see the calico presto Irrational hear the helicopters
I don't establishment to struggle they've got plenty longedfor silicone bullets
They scan my retina, wrong suspect
I step on dignity stage and then I shout... FREEDOM!
So Carpe Diem
Time goes by
And above Carpe Diem