They sing it back for 85,000 reasons

[brin_bellway]

I'd like to ask you all something.

First, listen to this song:

Watch on YouTube

Now, *before* looking at anyone else's answers, what do you think this song is about?


(note: here is a spoiler-text translator)

Comments

[brin_bellway]

My interpretation: Vg'f nobhg bcvngr nqqvpgvba.

The interpretation that is apparently canonical: Vg'f nobhg ershtrrf syrrvat sebz bccerffvir ertvzrf.


(Really I should probably just avoid ever looking at canonical song interpretations: it seems like they're always something completely off-the-wall, like someone was experimenting to see how far they could bend and stretch the words while studiously ignoring the obvious meaning. And yet I can only presume that most of them are not trolling, that they actually did mean what they claim to have meant, and perhaps they would think that *I'm* the one being creative-to-the-point-of-malicious in my interpretations. It's very unnerving.)

[thedarlingone]

Irefr 1 naq ersenva: Pguhyuh zlgubf? Frrzf yvxr cbffvoyl Qrrc Bar CBI jvgu znlor na natyr nobhg gur svfu crbcyr V pnaabg pheeragyl erzrzore gur anzr bs.

Irefr 2: Fryxvrf? Fxva-funcrf naq punatvat naq fvaxvat. Pbhyq fgvyy or Qrrc Barf, ohg "vg'f jnez" fbhaqf zber yvxr fryxvrf.

Irefr 3: Ubarfgyl fbhaqf zbfg yvxr lbhe fgnaqneq oynu-qr-oynu obl naq tvey ylevpf. V pbhyq trg fbzrguvat nobhg gryrcnguvp jvyy-b'-gur-jvfc cflpuvp cnenfvgrf vs V fdhvagrq ernyyl uneq. Gur jubyr fbat vf inthr rabhtu gung V bayl qvfpbhagrq gur obl-naq-tvey vagrecergngvba bhg bs unaq orpnhfr vg frrzrq hayvxryl gung V jbhyq or nfxrq jung vg jnf nobhg vs vg jnf gung boivbhf.

Bcvngr nqqvpgvba: lrnu V thrff V pbhyq frr vg vs V jnf tbvat zber nofgenpg.

Ershtrrf: jung gur *shpx*.

[contrarianarchon]

Hu, V unq nyjnlf ... qvfzvffrq vf gur jebat jbeq, ohg cynprq va gur pngrtbel bs "nrfgurgvpnyyl cyrnfvat cfrhqb-bpphyg abafrafr" (qba'g yvxr qvfzvffrq orpnhfr gung jbhyq vzcyl V guvax "nrfgurgvpnyyl cyrnfvat cfrhqb-bpphyg abafrafr" vf n onq guvat gb znxr n fbat nobhg, be gung guvf fbat unfa'g orra ba zl znva cynlyvfg sbe nf ybat nf V'ir unq n znva cynlyvfg) ohg guvaxvat nobhg vg ... gur haoevqtrnoyr qvivqr orgjrra fbhy naq fbhy naq gur frys-perngrq-va-gur-zvaq-bs-bguref-nf-qvfgvapg-sebz-gur-gehr-frys?

(edited to rot13 it, because I didn't check the comments while writing and didn't realise this was how we were doing spoilers)