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.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
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23 comments:
I think you're spot on.
L...O...L! There seem to be a lot of songs like that, with garbled words, that become popular anyway. Go figure.
Ha!
I mean, ha ha ha!
The sad thing is I think your translation makes better sense then the "real" lyrics.
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.
(Why am I writing "notes to self" on Carrot's blog?)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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."
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
you have taken me to a nice place.
yeah, right! You looked that up on Lyrics.com!
Oh I love this song and now I can sing along with it!
Heffalump, I did the same thing with the tape recorder!
Thank you, thank you. I needed that.
Hahaha! :D
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!"
So funny, you are a crack up every single day. Love your guts. And your lovey dovey paper.
Sorry about the long comment. It was Lisa...those Auburn 3rd Ward YW! I tell ya...
I have always wondered what those wise men were doing to her balah! Now I know! Thank you Carrot!!
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.
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.
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