Utter Waste of Time

   A fun new place to waste a lot of time is English as She is Spoken, a site featuring a bit of CGI that will run a chosen phrase through AltaVista's notoriously unreliable Babelfish translator in one of five languages, back and forth from that language to English until no more of it can be altered.  As you might expect, this produces some pretty amusing phrases, but I've found it's most fun to play it with song lyrics, some of which actually end up getting changed so much that they become essentially unrecognizable.  So, take the quiz!  Can you tell me which song these lyrics originally belonged to?  (In some cases you'll probably be able to figure it out easily enough, but the results were so damned hilarious I included it anyway.  And German is routinely the funniest, which is why there are more.)

1. Run through in French:
    "The left with me the hook with you of bottom, of the ' causes so that I disappear, pose the cutter. Nothing is true, and nothing to obtain stopped hard, of the layers of the cutter for always."

2. Run through in German:
    "I need still another another other little received bezauberte of the overvoltage of the radioactive radioactive radioactive half-life of the type I by this. I need still something, not not do not hear you not I not, if you say, probably phases."

3. Run through in Italian:
    "Ain ' t of Dirlo therefore, I will not be extinguished, in order not to turn the lights, not the concentr of transport. Still for so that it carries out your head, I will be your emotion, the night that I will continue, my flour mill from grain from grain from grain from grain from grain to small wind."

4. Run through in Italian:
    "Since they have fallen in the love with the girl to the exposure of the reef. It has said to what that what and it that what those that what it that one has said that you have not known. It is therefore cold, sneak of the external panel within through the relative Window. All the best one when it is around, I cannot help to finch the relative escape of the parents of the city, that they have fallen in the love with the girl to the exposure of the reef."

5. Run through in German:
    "Lead it life overvoltage, it waited blackbird through, which sings into the dead night and into this interrupted wing, to which it fly, only this this developed moment the latter and learn."

6. Run through in Portuguese:
    "When I found it me me me me I I myself in the height of the problem, friccion-for I me I am Mary come close me me me I I myself, excavate words of the wisdom, leave it to be."

7. Run through in German:
    "It had to never knock on wood, but I white someone, it I to the miracles, has if I could, it educates that, I educates to the miracle, if I had to never knock, on wood and I, which I did not have still gladly, because I that it is not good, which is the impression, which receives, I, is you is safe."

8. Run through in German:
    "Participated, if you do not try, everything, which is a little there, is always, received, around as in the center to its a little more better. I and Cinderella of everything, which you attach box, schachtelt fit us we, which propels it, because even with a headlight on."

9. Run through in German:
    "They bent, in order to laugh approximately everyone, which hung out. Now you, thus loud, do not seem now speak you, over credit note of the Scroungings, not not not your following meal, how you believe so proudly? How does she believe? Without its house? How a complete unknown? How role of the role of the role of role of the role of role of role of role of role of role of Rollenrollenrollenrollenrollenrollenstein?"

10. Run through in German:
    "Baby, bone of this Stadtrips their rear side, is it death trap, it, to suicide suicide selbstmordstampfen suicide, which we were carried to go in order to leave, in order into order gotta, which is real, over to run, during we a new... ' cause, as we, to the baby, we is, the correct outside Tramps."

And hour, here they are the answers
("And now, here are the answers" run through in Italian)

1. The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever"
    "Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to, Strawberry Fields.  Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about, Strawberry Fields forever."

2. Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life"
    "I want something else, to get me through this, semi charmed kind of life.  I want something else, I'm not listening when you say, goodbye."

3. Blink 182 - "All the Small Things"
    "Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home.  Keep your head still, I'll be your thrill, the night will go on, my little windmill."

4. Blink 182 - "The Rock Show"
    "Because I fell in love with the girl at the rock show.   She said what and I told her that I didn't know.  She's so cool, gonna sneak in through her window.  Everything's better when she's around, I can't wait till her parents go out of town, I fell in love with the girl at the rock show."

5. The Beatles - "Blackbird"
    "Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly.  All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise."

6. The Beatles - "Let It Be"
    "When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be."

7. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "The Impression that I Get"
    "Never had to knock on wood, but I know someone who has, which makes me wonder if I could, it makes me wonder if I, never had to knock on wood, and I'm glad I haven't yet, because I'm sure it isn't good, that's the impression that I get."

8. The Wallflowers - "One Headlight"
    "Come on, try a little, nothing is forever, it's got to be something better than in the middle.  Me and Cinderella can put it all together, we can drive it home with one headlight."

9. Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone"
    "You used to laugh about everybody that was hanging out.   Now you don't talk so loud, now you don't seem so proud, about having to be scrounging for your next meal.  How does it feel?  How does it feel?  To be without a home?  Like a complete unknown?  Like a rolling stone?"

10. Bruce Springsteen - "Born to Run"
    "Baby, this town rips the bones from your back, it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap, we gotta get out while we're young.  'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run."