A meme! - All solved!

[active_apathy]

Who'd ever have guessed? This one's been swiped from ryttu3k.

First, the instructions:

1. Pick five songs that most people on your friends list would know.


2. Select lyrics up to, but no more than, 150 words from each.


3. Go to Babelfish ( http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr ).


4. Translate:
   
   • From English to German
   
   
   • From German to French
   
   
   • From French to Portuguese
   
   
   • From Portuguese to English
   
   
5. Post the results, and ask people to figure out what the songs are.

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Song the First: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (guessed by salzara_tirwen)

It is thought if as well as it can declare skies of the hell, blue skies pain can declare greens to collect of a cold steel band? smile of a candle? Vocês thinks can say? E veranliessen, your Helder rôdiez to act? The ash for trees is called? Hot air for breaking expenditures? Cold comfort for modification? E had changed to a way on the part during the war against a conduction paper in a picture?

Song the Second: INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (guessed by salzara_tirwen)

We could for years miles we live, but, if it wounded them, it would become me wine of your ruptures I form myself I declared them that that ' we do not fly a cause nospoderí -- amos all, I have them wing, about of us they know however because I me was they were you two worlds shocked there and they could not break us certainly to the part never violently '

Song the Third: Supertramp - The Logical Song (guessed by ryttu3k)

When it was young, seemed that the life was so admirable, a miracle, OH - that it was pretty, for magic. E all the birds in the trees, wells would be it me playfully make attention thus happily happily sing. But they send me then, to teach itself, as he is reasonable, logicamente, in responsible way, practically. E had shown to me intellectual level to it, zynisch a world, in which could be so fiável, clinicamente.

Song the Fourth: Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (guessed by salzara_tirwen)

For the life, it is completely nonsense and the final death word that must always collate the curtain with an elbow forgets on yours péché - it gives to the public of which a Grinsen enjoys - is in a way or another one your last probability. If it looks at thus always of luminous side of the death, little before a Scheisse drew your breath of terminal to the piece of the life, if considers it rire of the life and a favour of the death, it is just. They see that all is ESTADOS-MEMBROS that laugh maintenance publication ', data that it remembers goes necessarily that it is last charcos on vocês.'

Song the Fifth: The Corrs - Only When I Sleep (guessed by princesslaurene)

They are dreamboat only that vocês they swim in my head segelt, my private oceans of blue korallenrotem and your odor the odor is red that your note burns, is jousts silks, but it reaches my skin and to dislocate it in the clutches to my chest is to it however, only if I see them in my dreams I sleep, vocês me the rounding and to turn round filant upside-down to receive, but the vocês I only consider myself to breathe in my sleep I received in some place the rounding and to turn round upside-down however to be filant, if I only sleep

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And the icon? The thought amused me far too much to just let slip.

Comments

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Third song - The Logical Song by Scooter.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

No! Well, kinda no. Want to try a different artist?

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Someone else did The Logical Song? *google* Supertramp?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*nods* It is, indeed, Supertramp.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Song the first: Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd
Song the fourth: Always Look On The Bright Side of Life, Monty Python
Song the second: Never Tear Us Apart, by INXS

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Impressive. :)

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

I still have no idea about the fifth one.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Would you like a fiendishly cryptic hint?

[salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com]

Sure. It sounds devilishly familiar.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Maybe when you take a nap, you'll hear it in your dreams.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Song the Fifth: Only When I Sleep by the Corrs.

Not that I'm reading your older journal entries or anything.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Did you recognise the song, or did another of the older entries inspire the answer? I think the outage meme might've been a bit of a clue, for example.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

No, I just recognised it from that chunk of scrambled lyrics. For some reason 'your odor the odor is red' caught my attention, and then when I kept reading I knew that I knew it.

I've just caught up to the day I friended you. I do this to most people I friend, if I have time -- I like to learn a bit abut their pasts so that their present makes more sense, if you know what I mean.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I see. Nicely done!

You're now one of a select few who'll know I was odd before I was famous. :)