The Babelfish song lyric meme
Apr. 22nd, 2005 07:01 amThe song translation meme:
You go find a song that everybody knows and put the lyrics into the Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/).
Translate them from English to German, then German to French, and then French to English.
Then post here with 3 clues. See who gets the song right first.
For the record, my musical knowledge does not endear itself toward three clues, and I don't think I know songs that everyone else knows! But, okay, let's see.
All is not on the world of the day has new year in the white receives on the way calmly and me would like with you to be is with you one night and a day modifies anything the day the new year me is again with you, who I am again with you under blazing of the skies has the mass seized in black and white the arms entwined that selected to a small number, the newspapers say legends which is right him, say ourselves and we can break, gezerrissen in both, still can a being me me still OH- above and perhaps time is right OH- evening me is perhaps it with you, still who me beginning certainly violently, collects that this one is the gilded age and is a gold the reason of wars which we undertake, although I want to be with you would be with you one night and a day nothing the day new year modifies
1) This song has been released on at least two major albums by its (highly prolific!) group.
2) This band's lead singer is extremely politically active.
3) This band's lead singer startled his fans by kissing Liam Gallagher of Oasis in 1996 in front of photographers.
G'luck.
You go find a song that everybody knows and put the lyrics into the Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/).
Translate them from English to German, then German to French, and then French to English.
Then post here with 3 clues. See who gets the song right first.
For the record, my musical knowledge does not endear itself toward three clues, and I don't think I know songs that everyone else knows! But, okay, let's see.
All is not on the world of the day has new year in the white receives on the way calmly and me would like with you to be is with you one night and a day modifies anything the day the new year me is again with you, who I am again with you under blazing of the skies has the mass seized in black and white the arms entwined that selected to a small number, the newspapers say legends which is right him, say ourselves and we can break, gezerrissen in both, still can a being me me still OH- above and perhaps time is right OH- evening me is perhaps it with you, still who me beginning certainly violently, collects that this one is the gilded age and is a gold the reason of wars which we undertake, although I want to be with you would be with you one night and a day nothing the day new year modifies
1) This song has been released on at least two major albums by its (highly prolific!) group.
2) This band's lead singer is extremely politically active.
3) This band's lead singer startled his fans by kissing Liam Gallagher of Oasis in 1996 in front of photographers.
G'luck.