Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup Lyrics
1.Anonymous Collective

You and me are moulded by things
Well beyond our acknowlegment

You and me are shaped by some things
Well beyond our acknowledgement


2.Cybele's Reverie

Maties sensuelles et sans suite
L'enfance est plus sympathique
L'enfance apporte le magique

Que faire quand on a tout fait
Tout lu tout bu tout mang?Tout donn?en vrac et en dail
Quand on a cri?sur tous les toits
Pleur?et ri dans les villes et en campagne

L'enfance est plus authentique
Le jardin au haut portique

La maison la maison d'autrefois
La maison la maison ?venir

Et le silence
Me prera

Les pierres, les arbres, les murs, racontent (from 1'45'')
(with 'la maison...')

And they seemed to say :
'et le silence-trera
Et me penetrera'
But silence-trera means nothing, or it's just for the rhyme.
cybele's reverie

Childhood is very nice
Childhood brings magic

What to do when one has done everything?
Read everything, drunk everything, eaten everything?
Given everthing in truth and in detail,
When one has cried on all the rooftops,
Wept and laughed in the towns and in the country?

Childhood is the most real
The garden of new visions

The house, the house, of other times
The house, the house that we have left

And the silence
That penetrates me


3.Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Les alls, les venues, labyrinthe, mais qu'y vois je?
La sortie, je la voie, elle est l? on est peu,
Bien trop peu, au travers, murs ais je peux le faire,
Faire tomber, les rans, du trompage, du trompage

S'accrochant au vide, ?de la fum, les balles sont crevs, tout
recommencer
Que voudra-t-on voir, le rideau lever, le silence est d'or, je
ne suis pas d'accord
Ne pas faire d'effort, et beaucoup bailler, pouvoir s'ever, et
vous saluer,
On n'est pas pigeon, peut-re bien des cons, la rlit? de
l'autre fan


4.Les Yper-sound

You go in that team
I go on this team
Divide everything
A flag or a number
Make 'em opposites
So there's a reason
Stigmatisation
Ok now we can fight
Divide everything
Just put it all flat
Justification
Ok now you can fight

It is correct and reasonable


5.Metronomic Underground

Crazy, sturdy, a torpedo
Crazy, brutal, a torpedo

Who knows does not speak,
Who speaks doas not know,
Keep the mouth closed,
Rounding the sharpness
Untie the tangles,
To be vacuous,
To be infinite,
Leap into the void


6.Monstre Sacre

Hastened decrepit,
Old shrunken apple,
Ready for the pit,
I have let you go,
Without forgiving

Or understanding,
So now you are gone,
There could be nothing,
You live within me,
We communicate,

The light it creates and the tears it generates
Bring the forgivness
Don't let me down now

Life half sapped away,
It took all that time,
Sice you passed away,
To moisten the love

Wa have forged the sought after union brought us together and
the fullness,
The completeness, the infinite simplicity the world offers
forgivness


7.Motoroller Scalatron

What's society built on
What's society built on
What's society built on
What's society built on
It's built on, built on bluff,
Built on bluff, built on trust,
What's society built on
It's built on, built on words,
Built on words, built on work

Responsible for what i say
Responsible for what i hush


8.Olv 26

Depuis le temps que c'est promis
Nous irons tous au paradis-
C'est un appel sourd une promesse
Aveuglante qui noie la conscience;
Ce paradis me pe, son poids
Incommensurable abruti;
Ancr dans des strates profondes,
Une pulsion des plus aliantes;
Telle une fausse libation,
Un at de pure dendance;
Le paradis est derrie moi
Dans le ventre de ma maman-
Unchallenged myths, they lie heavy,
L'imaginaire is our worse enemy,
The paradise, what an idea !
A guardian still on duty.

Olv 26

Before the promised times
We were always in paradise
It's a name given to one promise
(.....)who kills conscience
The paradise i think of, its weight
Incomprehensibly abrupt
(....) in these profound layers
(....) a false liberation
A state of pure dependence
The paradise is behind me
In the center of my mother-
Unchallenged myths, they lie heavy,
L'imaginaire is our worse enemy,
The paradise, what an idea !
A guardian still on duty.


9.Percolator

j'ai tres tres peur ca c'est certain,
J'ai tres tres peur mais beaucoup moins
Que tous les gens a cette table
De mon bateau ancre profond,
Naviguer une direction
Et aller loin.

Percolator

I am very very scared, that's for sure
I am very very scared but much less
Than all the people at this table
Of my deeply anchored boat
Choose a direction
And go there


10.Slow Fast Hazel

Discovery of fire, america,
The invention of the wheel, steel work and democracy
Philosophy, the soviets and other events in history of humanity
Happened at a certain given moment in time

Won't go back to the days couldn't even start a fire
Won't go back to the days america'd not been discovered
The transition has been operated for ever
What had gone on before from what there'd been after


11.Spark Plug

There is no sense in being interested in a child a group or in a
society,
There is no sense if one cannot see in them before anything
else,
The life it's capacity to founded upon itself
There is no sense in being interested in an ill person
Or unwell a society if one cannot believe their readiness
And the capacity for proper recovery;

Auto production organisation


12.The Noise Of Carpet

I hate to see your broken face
This world would give you anything
As long as you will want to
As long as you will want to
I hate your state of hopelessness
And that vain articulateness
Your loser type wreck wanna be
Not a pretty sight really
In another world it'd be funny

I hate to see your broken face
A lazy life of fatal waste
Of fashionable cynicism
The poison they want you to drink
Oh no man that's too easy
Oh no man that's too easy
We weren't talking bout happiness
Apply your leading potential
To be useful to this planet
The world would give you anything
As long as you will want to
As long as you will want to

Ba da ba...


13.Tomorrow Is Already Here

Originally this set up was to serve society
Now the roles have been reversed
That want society to serve the institutions
Originally, serve society, serve society,
Role have been reversed
Institutions, alienation