Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Lost In Translation

Have you ever wanted to sing along to "What a fool believes", but never could understand what Michael McDonald was saying?

Well, you're in luck!

I translated the song for you.

Bet you didn't know I was a translator, did you?

Play the video, sing along and just see how good I am.

You might want to hire me for your next...translation project.






He came from somewhere back in the long ago

Seven and a foo don’t sits on her hot to be cree

But her yet to be created

Once in her life

she mustard's a smile

for his nostalgic tale

Never gonna near what they wanted to say

only to realize

It never really was

She

had a place in his life

He

never may have danguh eyes

As she rises to her apology

Anybody else would surely know

He’s watchin’ her go

What a fool believes

He sees

The wise men cash her balah

To reason away

What sheees

To be

It’s always them or nothing

Or nothing at all

Chief says in there

somewhere back in the long ago

But he can still believe there’s a place in her life

Someday somewhere

She will be churn

*guitar solo*

ahVee

had a place in his life

She never may have think twice

As she rises to her apology

Anybody else would surely know

He’s watchin her go

What a fool believes

He sees

Wise men cash her balah

To reason away

What shees

To be

It’s always them or nothing

And nothing at all

What a fool believes

I believe she never gone away

Yay.





*I realize that this is not 100%, but his accent is hard to understand.

**I also realize that my punctuation, etc. skills are...lacking in this post, but hey - something's gotta give.

23 comments:

b. said...

I think you're spot on.

Mom4ever said...

L...O...L! There seem to be a lot of songs like that, with garbled words, that become popular anyway. Go figure.

wynne said...

Ha!

I mean, ha ha ha!

The sad thing is I think your translation makes better sense then the "real" lyrics.

wynne said...

Note to self: Next time you want to write song lyrics, just toss a dictionary in the blender and see what comes out. No one will notice.

wynne said...

(Why am I writing "notes to self" on Carrot's blog?)

Heffalump said...

Ah...this makes me think back to the good old days where I would sit by my tape recorder, constantly stopping the tape and rewinding, trying to figure out the words to my favorite songs. This was not on the list...
I actually understood most of the words to this one, but that man certainly does have a lazy accent when singing.

Super Happy Girl said...

Gracias Carrot. I never knew what he said until know!

The wise men cash her balah♪
To reason away♫
What sheees
To be♪


WOO HOOO!

Millie said...

This reminds me of 27 Dresses. "She's got electric boobs!"

I love Michael McDonald. I think he'd be proud of what you've done here today.

Yvonne said...

I ALWAYS loved that song--kind of pathetic when you realize you sing and dance around to a song and you have NO IDEA what the guy is saying ; ) Thanks for helping.

Anonymous said...

I don't know this song.

I'm just going to go whistle the theme to Chariots of...er, I mean, Star Wars, to myself. Because I know that one.

Acacia said...

Thanks for clearing this up for us. I thought it was "for her nostalgic KITES."

There's a book out there somewhere called "'scuze me while I kiss this guy" with wacked-out lyrics people THOUGHT were real. My favorite is from Grease: "I've got shoes...they're made of plywood."

Brad's gaggle of girls said...

Dharma and Greg had an episode where they had a party. Greg was singing " I wanna Rock and Roll all night and PART OF EVERY DAY" supposed to be "and party every day"
lol

Calamity Jane said...

you have taken me to a nice place.

Shirley said...

yeah, right! You looked that up on Lyrics.com!

Lisa said...

Oh I love this song and now I can sing along with it!

Heffalump, I did the same thing with the tape recorder!

Jennifer B. said...

Thank you, thank you. I needed that.

Nancy Face said...

Hahaha! :D

Kristi said...

Reminds me of my fifth year at girls camp when Bananarama's 'Cruel Summer" was popular. It was playing on someones stereo while we were getting settled, because 5th years get that type of thing. When it got to the chorus, someone started singing "It's a crew, crew sag na." She thought those were the words, even though she knew the title of the song.

Can't remember if it was Marci, Mindy, or Lisa....

But the rest of us laughed for the entire week of camp. AND we used it to describe everything that week. Like, "Canoeing...that is SO crew sag na!"

Tiffany said...

So funny, you are a crack up every single day. Love your guts. And your lovey dovey paper.

Kristi said...

Sorry about the long comment. It was Lisa...those Auburn 3rd Ward YW! I tell ya...

Sketchy said...

I have always wondered what those wise men were doing to her balah! Now I know! Thank you Carrot!!

elasticwaistbandlady said...

You're wrong about her having a PLACE in his life. No, she actually had a PLATE in his life.

He bought it at the dollar store. It has Powerpuff Girls on it. And then he monogrammed her name onto it with a Sharpie marker.

If they ever break up she'll be adrift on the sea of sadness without even a Powerpuff Girl plate to buouy her up.

elasticwaistbandlady said...

My mom's best friend met Michael McDonald after a concert last year. She's 6'2. She was drunk. She was an inebriated Amazon Woman jamming at a Michael McDonald concert-blocking evryone behind her for 10 rows back from seeing anything.

Anyway, she told the very diminutive Michael, "Holy crap, you are really, really, really short......like a cocktail shrimp."

Michael reportedly was not flattered.