Okay, let's put it this way... like some 90s children, I grew up listening to Enya. For better or worse, I still totally possess some of her albums, and this one song is one of my favorites but it has also driven me lyrically mad.

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The liner notes and the lyrics I can find on Google include some Irish Gaelic for part of the song, and while I don' ( Read more... )

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(The trailer is terrible by the way, nothing like the tone of the actual film)

I though this film ight interest people here. I'd wanted to see it since I'd heard of its existence, but not got round to it until today, but it was definitely worth the wait. Gruff Rhys from the Super Furry Animals saw a singer on Welsh tv in the 70s who used to go ( Read more... )

I'm listening to Le Moribond by Jacques Brel, and there's a line I have trouble understanding. It's the bolded part here:

C´est dur de mourir au printemps, tu sais
Mais j´pars aux fleurs la paix dans l´âme

I know the indivdual words, but I have trouble connecting them, especially how la paix dans l´âme fits in. What I understand is that the ( Read more... )

So, I was listening to the versions of Don't Cry for Me, Argentina in Spanish & Portuguese and noticed that the second person personal pronoun varies throughout the song and, was hoping you could elucidate the reason why.

In Spanish it starts off with vosotros (debéis creerme, la fe que queráis conseguir, mi lugar vuestro es por vosotros luché) and ( Read more... )

I'm bored and I don't want to/can't sleep yet, so I translated a Portuguese song into Finnish. Could someone make sure what I wrote makes sense/doesn't sound super weird?

( Thinking of your f-lists... )

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So there is a lyric from a Bigbang song, Wings, that I would very much like to have a tattoo of. I felt that it would be excellent to have it in Hangul along with the English translation (it would be going along the side of my forearm, and just the English wouldn't look right in size). Except... I have no idea how to actually figure out which part ( Read more... )

Yes, the title sounds cheesy, but this is actually nice to play with. Bodo Wartke (warning: site may play a welcome song, which includes a spelled-out URL) is a German comedian of the "classical" type who plays the piano, sings, and does all kinds of additional things (such as a full-length theater version of King Oedipus in which he plays fourteen ( Read more... )