Lost in Translation Vol. 8

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 Friday 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 “Heart of Glass”, the worldwide smash hit by Blondie from their 1978 album “Parallel Lines”. I’d tried to make last week’s selection more challenging, but once again the correct answer was offered up on the first day—for the third week in a row!!

I’ve upped the ante again this week—by a lot I think—with a deeper cut from an album that generated two top 20 hits in the US. This acoustic rock track was released by a male solo artist in the back half of the 80s and just about charted on the UK Singles Chart while enjoying some limited success across Europe. 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:

Perhaps this latest study is meant to confirm a lifelong claim.

Violence leads to nothing, nothing happens.

To all those who were born under hatred

Let us never forget how weak we are.

I’ll be back on Notes later this week and on Friday 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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