Lost in Translation Vol. 18

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! As revealed yesterday, last week’s song was “What I Got”, from Sublime’s 1996 self-titled album. For the second week in a row a genre hint was needed before the correct answer was forthcoming. It’s now been a LOOONG time since I’ve completely stumped the audience; maybe this week’s song will be the one?!? (doubtful 🙄)

We’re headed back to the second half of the 80s this week, for a song by a legendary post-punk band, a track that turned into a crossover hit and found its way on to the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco chart.

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Translated Lyric

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

Hot and burning nose

Flowing into your open mouth

Your body melts away like a layer of ash.

Torture in captivity

If nobody’s scored the correct answer by midweek then I’ll be back on Notes with some more clues and on the weekend with the solution.

Hit me with your best shot 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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