Gained in Translation

I recently added the French DVDs to the Collectible Videos section of RainbowBrite.net, and in doing so, typed up some of the French text on the back of the boxes. As usual when I'm typing up foreign Rainbow-Brite-related information, I got curious as to what it meant. So I fired up Google Translate to get some rough translations. What came out on the other side were these whimsical, poetic phrases about Rainbow Brite - and I realized that they were lyrics from the French Rainbow Brite Theme Song.

Now if you've never heard the French theme song, take a listen to it. The melody is the same as the American theme written by Haim Saban & Shuki Levy, but the song is much longer, with its own set of lyrics, written by Alain Garcia. Thankfully we have the lyrics, because they were included on the sleeve of the French record, Au pays de l'arc-en-ciel, which includes the theme song, and an instrumental version of the theme. Below is a translation of those lyrics, with some additional help from a French Canadian fan that goes by the name Patty O'Green :)

Rainbow Brite
Country of light
Where little Sprites live like kings

Rainbow Brite
Away from our planet
You can see Rainbow and Starlite

Rainbow Brite
Where the rainbow sky
Is not a mystery but a shout of joy

Rainbow Brite
Pastel light
Color Murky could never make disappear

Rainbow Brite
Yellows, reds and greens
Like a cut
In the blue of the Universe

Rainbow Brite
Guarded by Rainbow
Who is a magician and a little soldier

Around her waist
A divine belt
This is the secret weapon
Of all fighting

Rainbow Brite
Lurky and Murky
Even in their darkness they will not have you

Their grayness
Falls into the abyss
Like a bad dream
Which would not exist

Rainbow Brite
Your heart is glitter
Your eyes sparkle and you live like that

Rainbow Brite
Light of celebration
For Twink's future that's right

Rainbow Brite
For a child's dream
You well exist somewhere out there

Rainbow Brite
Beyond time you will always remain the eternal mirror

Rainbow Brite
Yellows, reds and greens
Like a cut
In the blue of the Universe

Rainbow Brite ...

What's your favorite verse? :)