I was poking around Six Apart’s new VOX service and I came across this game, which I think is great.
- Randomly pick a song from your music library.
- Find the lyrics for the first four verses/chorus
- Go to Google translation and translate the lyrics from English into German.
- Take the new German lyrics and translate them into French.
- Take the new French lyrics and translate them into English.
- Post the NEW English lyrics and have people guess the original song
I don’t think mine is too difficult, if you read through it a a couple of times.
Wells I do not know, why I came this evening;
I received the feeling which does not have something right;
I frightened thus, if I fall far from my chair;
And I am astonished to the bottom, as me the staircase receives;
Clowne on the left side me; I am on the right, here birds of recreation;
Adhered to the medium with you;
I am adhered in the medium with you;
And I am astonished, which it would owe me makes is;
It is so hard to hold this smile of my face;
Conclusion Orientation yeah I am whole on the place;
Clowne on the left side me, birds of recreation on the right;
Here, I, am adhered in the medium with you. ;
You do not pour ace started outside with nothing and you are proud that yourself are which it man is formed;
And your friends all, come it crawlin, you on the back strike and please say. Ask;
Attempts to be logical slightly at him all;
But I can see that all of it is logical none;
It is necessary to coldly go to sleep on the floor;
It does not think cause I that I can take more;
Clowne on the left side me, Birds of recreation on the right;
Here, I, am adhered in the medium with you.
Stuck in the middle with you?
Can you guess mine?
Not NIN but Cash, though who could tell?
Yes, lots of fun, you should try doing a back translation… once it is in English, retranslate it to French, then to German and then back to English… even worse!
i got it with the “clowne”…stuck in the middle with you…i see blair got it too. 🙂
I figured it out once I got to, “adhere to the medium with you”. Fun game!
Stuck in the middle is a great song. Mine is painfully obvious to figure out, but here goes:
(Note: I tried to make it more readbale but gave up halfway through. It sounds like ABBA’s version.)
People are people thus why it thus thus should be
you and I would so terribly owe the length of maintenance
people am people thus why it should be
you and I should so terribly have false the length of maintenance
the goods of the so different colors and were not Kredos
different people various different needs
obvious sound hate you me Ive does anything Ive met certainly to you even thus never what me I could have fact inclines
include/understand what trains a man another man hate me to help to include/understand
people is people why should be to him you and I would so terribly owe the length of maintenance
the people am people why you should be to him and I should include/understand so terribly maintenance
help me me to help me to include/understand
Youre to punch now and to take a step youre and which to me to go and, building on your general behavior plunged until now hasnt on however in sure exists him to just take when to travel of your head to your fist (head with your fists) I incline include/understand, to him which youre a man trains another man haÔr to help to include/understand people being people why should be it thus you and I would so terribly owe the length of maintenance of the people am people why thus you should be and I would have receive me so terribly inclines include/understand what trains a man another man haÔr me to help to include/understand me inclines includes/understands What trains a man another man haÔr me helps to include/understand me inclines includes/understands what trains a man another man haÔr me inclines understands (people are people) that a man trains (why it should be) another man haÔr me to help to include/understandÖ
Thomas, is your’s, “People Are People” by Depeche Mode?
Here is mine…
Cries of battle
train us the fast Paradies retirement
come to him square until the fight
as dynamite
the flight are not cheap
us without Aqualung
our will are young person
of maintenance deep strongly
received us to work above,
where we go false
the butter flower
me think that we missed a rotation
support you in top
you would think that I would learn
your Gelatinedynamit
places truth alight
the flight am us
without Aqualung
our time am young
of major maintenance
to find a long time received us,
where we arrive
square until the fight
as dynamite
the flight
without Aqualung
our will are young person
of maintenance deep we are
us must to strongly work,
where we go false
the light years we go from here
to combustion to the atmosphere
which is to it crystal sector applicants
is next to balance for us on Leuchter
you know what i’m going to say, don’t you? if not, you haven’t been paying attention. what i am going to say is this: altavista’s babelfish came before google translator. hrmph. google.