Latin Translation Exercise: "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor's nu-metal hit song, rendered into an ancient tongue.
I don’t have a cheeky little explanation to introduce why I chose this song for this month’s translation. I was listening to the album Mouth Silence by Neil Cicierega, and I wanted to translate Closer, but it’s already been done. True, it’s done for accuracy rather than sing-ability, but it’s better to have a broader library of these examples than to us…
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