Lost in Translation Vol. 9

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 the Sting track “Fragile” from his 1987 album Nothing Like The Sun. I thought a deeper cut, despite being from a renowned artist like Sting, would prove too big of a challenge, but I was once again proven wrong with the correct answer popping up in the comments within hours!

Today we’re heading back to the late 90s for a female-voiced ballad, a magical song from what has become, in my mind, a stone cold downtempo classic. The single did chart, albeit at a middling level, in both the UK and the Netherlands. 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:

I just needed a little sign.

I walked behind the sun, leaving my weight behind

Chasing the sun

I just needed a place to find it.

I celebrated there.

If nobody’s scored the correct answer then 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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