Translation of song lyrics

Malice

I believe this is my first post in this forum so please be nice .
Anyway, one of the many Finnish bands that I quite like are Villieläin. All their lyrics are in Finnish so I'm curious what exactly they are singing about. Are their lyrics cringe-worthy? So, here's a YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3GytunB9yA

And the lyrics to go with it:

Kaiverrettu Hiekkaan

Varjot yllä vahvistuu
Kun mä avaan sivut kirjan
Myrskypilvet kerääntyy
Painajaiset kutsuu nimeltä
Mut enää mä kuuntele en

Vain kaiken turhuus jäljelle jää
Vaikka kuljen kuolleena eteenpäin

On sanat kaiverrettu hiekkaan
Ne siinä pysy ei
Vaikka kirjoitinkin uudestaan
Ne tuuli aina vei

Viimeisellä rannalla
Minä astuin julmaan satuun
Rajan tällä puolella
Ei oo väärää, oikeaa
On vain valtaa ja voittajia

Vain kaiken turhuus jäljelle jää
Vaikka kuljen kuolleena eteenpäin

On sanat kaiverrettu hiekkaan
Ne siinä pysy ei
Vaikka kirjoitinkin uudestaan
Ne tuuli aina vei

On sanat kaiverrettu hiekkaan
Eteenpäin
On sanat kaiverrettu hiekkaan….
Ne siinä pysy ei
Vaikka kirjoitinkin uudestaan
Ne tuuli aina vei
On sanat kaiverrettu hiekkaan
Eteenpäin

I hope the lyrics are accurate (I just copied them off another forum).

So if someone could translate the above to English I would be very grateful. In return, if anyone ever wants any Irish lyrics translated to English, let me know and I'll do my best to help out.

biko

Using http://translate.google.com/ I get this

Sand carved

Reinforced by the shadows
When I unlock my book pages
Storm clouds gather
Nightmares calls named
But I no longer listen to en

Only the futility of all remains
Although I'm walking dead ahead

The words engraved on the sand
They do not keep it
Although the printer again
They always took the wind

On the beach
I stood cruel fairy tale
On this side of the border
Oo no wrong, the correct
There is only power, and the winners

Only the futility of all remains
Although I'm walking dead ahead

The words engraved on the sand
They do not keep it
Although the printer again
They always took the wind

The words engraved on the sand
Forward
The words engraved on the sand ....
They do not keep it
Although the printer again
They always took the wind
The words engraved on the sand
Forward

Malice

Interesting. I never though to use an Internet translator as I figured it would probably just give back garbage. That result doesn't look too unintelligible though.

biko

Looks like pretty standard metal lyrics
Nice voice btw.

Maybe this would be something for you too? Not metal mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA7acExn9xo

Malice

Heh, I was sure you were going to post up some Indica .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgBq8mbV2s8

TonskuDaigle

In general, using GT and other translators with the Finnish language is like stuffing meatballs into your mouth and trying to hold a proper speech.

Finnish as a language is very difficult due to grammar and the words including many of the "in", "of", "to", "from" and other nouns at the end of the word. So often the meaning in GT translations is lost.

Those lyrics though did match the translation pretty good even though there were a few mistakes.

And yes, I'm Finnish

Malice

TonskuDaigle wrote: »

Those lyrics though did match the translation pretty good even though there were a few mistakes.

Any chance you could correct them?

TonskuDaigle

I'm afraid my artistic or English language skills are not good enough to do that

But trust me, those lyrics there are pretty accurate. Only a few mistakes. I could have a look at some other time. Now I don't really have the time or the energy to do that