Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Some Mistranslations, artist - Momus. Album song The Little Red Songbook, in the genre Инди
Date of issue: 05.12.2019
Record label: American Patchwork
Song language: English
Some Mistranslations |
The funny mistranslations the funny Japanese |
Use to fill cd brochures appeal in the west |
To the music lover’s sense of the surreal |
For example: «You trade our fear for euphoria» |
From my song 'King Solomon’s Song and Mine' |
In Japan emerged a much more sinister line: |
«You trade our veal for your foamy eye» |
Huh-huh, that kills me |
But some mistranslations are not so funny |
When the U.S. ultimatum came at the end of World War II |
The Japanese said: «We need some more time to consider what to do» |
But Truman, who already knew what weapon he planned to use |
Got the message, loud and clear, as: «We refuse!» |
My friend Fumiko’s mother was at school |
She’d had the luck to break some rule |
And got punished, banished to the cellar |
She emerged to find her hometown, Hiroshima, vanished |