Sassy Black Friend » music http://sassyblackfriend.com Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:34:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Song of the Day – Holler Edition http://sassyblackfriend.com/2011/06/19/song-of-the-day-holler-edition/ http://sassyblackfriend.com/2011/06/19/song-of-the-day-holler-edition/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:03:50 +0000 SBF http://sassyblackfriend.com/?p=1639 Because I just heard this coming from the car next to me in traffic. Complete with couple rocking out.

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Oh, and all the English translations of this song suck hard. Don’t read them.

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]]> http://sassyblackfriend.com/2011/04/25/glee-returns/feed/ 0 Song of the Day – Ch-ch-ch-Chaka Kahn edition http://sassyblackfriend.com/2011/04/22/song-of-the-day-ch-ch-ch-chaka-kahn-edition/ http://sassyblackfriend.com/2011/04/22/song-of-the-day-ch-ch-ch-chaka-kahn-edition/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:29:39 +0000 SBF http://sassyblackfriend.com/?p=1559 … and I love you!

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Oringinal recipe

Lenny Sexypants Kravitz

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Original:

Silly Television (insufferable snob warning – Gwyneth Paltrow):

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Here’s a fun example of how word to word translation doesn’t help you actually understand things. This is a very successful song by Francis Cabrel. Direct translation from Google is after the jump. Tell me how good the song is from that.

L’Encre De Tes Yeux

Puisqu’on ne vivra jamais tous les deux
Puisqu’on est fou, puisqu’on est seul
Puisqu’ils sont si nombreux
Même la morale parle pour eux
J’aimerais quand même te dire,
Tout ce que j’ai pu écrire
Je l’ai puisé à l’encre de tes yeux

Je n’avais pas vu que tu portais des chaînes
À trop vouloir te regarder j’en oubliais les miennes
On rêvait de Venise et de liberté

J’aimerais quand même te dire,
Tout ce que j’ai pu écrire
C’est ton sourire qui me l’a dicté

Tu viendras longtemps marcher dans mes rêves
Tu viendras toujours du côté où le soleil se lève
Et si malgré ça j’arrive à t’oublier
J’aimerais quand même te dire,
Tout ce que j’ai pu écrire
Aura longtemps le parfum
des regrets.

Et puisqu’on ne vivra jamais tous les deux…

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Ink In Your Eyes

Since we both shall live forever
Since it is crazy, since we are only
Because they are so numerous
Even the moral speak for themselves
I would still like to tell you,
Everything I have written
I drew in ink in your eyes

I had not seen you wore chains
In trying too hard to look at you I forgot mine
We dreamed of Venice and freedom

I would still like to tell you,
Everything I have written
It’s your smile that I had dictated

You’ll come a long walk in my dreams
You always come on the side where the sun rises
And if despite that I can forget
I would still like to tell you,
Everything I have written
Long will the scent
regrets.

And since we never lived both …

You can listen to the original song here. I’ll give anyone who shoots a video using the English “translation” $20.

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