<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Wow.<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I know I’ve achieved complete irrelevance when I can restore a song of such cultural significance to the Original Klingon with zero comment for a day. And nobody noticed that I even managed to work in an appropriately poetic use of the word {tlhonmey}. Sheesh.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">I guess I need to translate it for you. </div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">{Klingon text}, [literal translation], “so-called original lyrics in English”</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">{qol’om ‘oH gho-onbo-ogh Hoch’e’ ‘e’ Harchu’ ja-aw </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">ghaHbogh be’’e’ ‘ej QI’tu’ letlh je-e’taH.}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">[A woman, who is a lord, perfectly believes that everything that glitters is gold, and she’s buying paradise’s stairway. (I chose {letlh} because, well, it could be seen as leading to a ship of sorts — something you’d take a trip in.)]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">“</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">And she's buying a stairway to heaven”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">{</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">pawDI’ jaw’vam ngaQchu-u’-chugh ma-alja’ qa-ach,</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">ngoQDaj’a’ SuqlaHbe-ej ‘e’ So-ovbej.}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">[When this lady arrives, if the business’s building is perfectly locked, she knows that she can definitely acquire her great goal.]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">“</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">With a word she can get what she came for.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">{‘u’ ‘u’ ‘u’, ‘u’, ‘u’ ‘u’ ‘u’ ‘u’}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">[The Universe the Universe the Universe, the Universe, </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class="">the Universe </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class="">the Universe </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class="">the Universe </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class="">the Universe </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class="">the Universe. (Her goal is the Universe, many times over)]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class="">“Ooo ooo oooooooooo, ooooooooo, oo oo oo oo oo”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.549999237060547px;" class="">{</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">ej QI’tu’ ghoSbogh le-etlh je’law’taH.}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">[And she’s apparently buying a stairway that goes to paradise. (Yeah, I know that {ghoS} is arguably the wrong verb, but hey, poetic license.]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="4" class="">“</font><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""> And she's buying a stairway to heaven.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">{</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">reDDaq vepHey tu-u’lu’, ‘ach vo-oqchu’ ne-eH</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">rut cha’ qech chuplaHmo-o’ wa’ mu-u’.}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">[On the wall, one finds an apparent notice, but she wants to perfectly verify it because sometimes one word can suggest two ideas.]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">“There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure</span></div><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">{</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">bIQtIqHom retlhDaq SorDaq bomtaH qa-anra-aD.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">rut Hoch buSHachmaj no-obHa’lu-u’.} [This last verb was apparently mistranslated into English.]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">[At the side of the minor-river in a tree, a bird known for its song is singing. Sometimes -indefinite subject- takes back our thoughts. (Apparently the poor English translation of “Our thoughts are misgiven” made it into the popular English translation.)]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">“</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="4" class="">{</font><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">bISov.}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="4" class="">[You know.]</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="4" class="">“</font><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""> You know.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">{</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">tIng ’ev vIghantaHDI-I’ jItIwchoH net ghu-ur</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">‘ej jItlheD neHmo’ qa’wIj nongchoHbej.</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">[While I continue to glance at the West, it increases that I react emotionally and because my spirit wants that I depart, it definitely becomes passionate.]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">“</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">There's a feeling I get when I look to the west</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">And my spirit is crying for leaving.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">{</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">Sormey Hay tlhIch rutlhme-ey vIlegh ‘e’ vI-Ija-al</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><span style="font-size: 18.55px;" class="">bejbogh nu-uvpu’ QI-Ichmey je-e.</span>}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">[I imagine that I see wheels of smoke beyond the trees and the the vocal sounds of people who watch. (Yeah, I know that last noun phrase isn’t properly located for the grammar, buy hey, poetic license.)]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">“</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">And the voices of those who stand looking.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">{</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">qajal.</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">}</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">[I imagine you.]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;">“</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""> That's you.</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class="">”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 18.55px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18.6px; line-height: normal;" class="">— to be continued...</div></div></body></html>