Lost in Translation Vol. 10

The "name that tune" series with a twist. Can you reconstruct the original lyric after translation through half a dozen languages and identify the song?

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Lost in Translation is a weekly “name that tune” series with a twist. Every Monday I’ll present a song lyric which has been run through half a dozen languages before back translation into English. The translation process transmogrifies the lyric into something quite unlike the original and the challenge is for you, Dear Reader, to attempt to decipher the lyric and name the tune. Every weekend I’ll publish a new post with the translated lyric along with the original and a YouTube video timestamped to the start of the lyric.

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It’s Monday, which can only mean one thing—it’s time for another installment of Lost in Translation! Last week’s song was the Air track “All I Need” from their 1998 album Moon Safari. This was definitely a deeper cut from the album and proved to be a suitable challenge. After the additional hint provided midweek, a quick but exhaustive search by one of our dogged and intrepid readers resulted in the correct answer.

This week we’re going with another ballad, a late 80s track from a male solo artist that reached the top 10 in Canada and the top 30 in the US. If we’ve not had a correct answer later in the week, I’ll post a Note or two to help point people in the right direction.

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Translated Lyric

Here’s the lyric for this week’s Lost in Translation:

It was the same crowd every night.

In the smoke-filled room

Sometimes you could see a hint of love.

But it never flourished.

If nobody’s scored the correct answer then I’ll be back on Notes later this week and on the weekend with the solution.

Have at it folks!!

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Please head to the comments and let me know whether you’ve figured out this week’s song!!

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