Tone Burst

Stereolab

What you decide to be is what you are
Your only way ahead your way to go far
Your reasons that you do who you really are
The decisions in your head it will be far

Prejudice does no service to you
Break your shackles it's up to you
Be your own master owe it to you
Self-doubt inner you, I believe
It's hard in this cruel world to be who you are
It might mean hardship it might take a while
Struggle, conflict, causes they all have their power

Don't let anyone hurt your heart
Your desire...broken truths blew
But you don't see what we will use upon you
Refuse to blink when that thing wants you to

You can't take your life hypnotized
Don't let anyone hurt your heart
You have an evil side of you
We can live apart in the end
What I decide to be is what I am
What you invest with it is in my command
My reasons that you do won't ?deal? with romance

I wanna stress myself to be who I am
?Toss 'em off? is the best I can do
Why kill a man to achieve other things?
To explain, very cruel

Self-doubt inner you, I still bleed
I don't let anyone hurt my heart
Don't want to be taken apart
I have innocence in the end


Lyrics submitted by Lateralus518, edited by Kyrakat

Tone Burst Lyrics as written by Timothy John Gane Laetitia Sadier

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    Is this the real lyrics translated into English? Tone Burst is in French on my copy of Transient Random-Noise Bursts.

    jinnah78on October 04, 2011   Link
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    General Comment

    These are the lyrics to "Our Trinitone Blast". Not "Tone Burst".

    realitysoldieron November 24, 2012   Link
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    I submitted the correct lyrics, but they are in the process of being approved.

    Kyrakaton June 03, 2013   Link

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