Translating Songs into Latin: "Dammit" by Blink-182

A '90s hit off the album Dude Ranch, rendered into the ancient tongue.

I’ve been on a little bit of a late ’90s - early 2000s rock phase recently and this popped up while shuffling through a random playlist. Ancient languages take well to triplicate forms, that’s why dactylic hexameter is so prevalent. Some of these lines can be expressed in double dactyls on their own, but it won’t necessarily go with the song. I have bee…