Trying to record covers and have the sound and shit match up is HARD, y’all.

Help I’m Alive by Metric, o’r Mando’a

Ni chaasla

Val ven'eparavu oyayc

Meh ni trattok'o

Val ven'eparavu oyayc

Susulu ner kar'ta

Broka as gaanur as

Broka as gaanur as

Gaa'tayl ni oyayc

Ner kar'ta broka as gaanur as

Muun/orakto cuy’ pel

Atin'la cuy’ ramaanla

Aala ner kar'oka; iviin cuy’ karbakar

Gaa'tayl ni oyayc

Ner kar'ta broka as gaanur as

Broka as gaanur as

Meh gar su'cuy

Ner kih'echoy

Meh ner oyacyi ner

Meg cuy nu'duumyc

Ni olaro vaii slana

Ni hiibi an liniba

Vaal ner tal su pirnari

Bal ner kar'ta su

Broka as gaanur as

Broka as gaanur as

Gaa'tayl ni oyayc

Ner kar'ta broka as gaanur as

Muun/orakto cuy’ pel

Atin'la cuy’ ramaanla

Aala ner kar'oka; iviin cuy’ karbakar

Gaa'tayl ni oyayc

Ner kar'ta broka as gaanur as

Broka as gaanur as

Meh gar su'cuy

Ner kih'echoy

Meh ner oyacyi ner

Meg cuy’ nu'duumyc

Ni olaro vaii slana

Ni hiibi an liniba

Vaal ner tal su pirnari

Bal ner kar'ta su

Broka as gaanur as

Broka as gaanur as

Broka as gaanur as

Broka as gaanur as

Gaa'tayl ni oyayc

Ner kar'ta broka as gaanur as







New words, chaasla, from chaab ‘fear’ plus slanar ‘move’ for ‘to tremble’. Kar’oka, from kar’ta ‘heart’ plus brokar ‘to beat’ for ‘pulse, heartbeat’. Pirnari, from pirun ‘water’ plus narir ‘move’ for ‘to flow’.

EDIT: Oh yeah and lemme tell you how annoyed I am at using gaanur, fucking ‘hand tool’ for the fucking word hammer. But I have no idea for what basis to use to create a new word for it. My etymology dictionary has failed me. “My heart keeps beating like a hand tool” is the most simultaneously underwhelming and hilarious line of a song in translation history, I am sure.