A while ago Jens wondered on Twitter “[..] if native speakers of English can turn off the mental processing of corny pop song lyrics like us second language people.” Some radio stations over here have a feature where they translate the lyrics of English songs and read them in a way that might be okay for a poem. Turns out, not many lyrics still sound good after that treatment.
A nice example of how weird pop music lyrics can sound when translated to German, have a listen to Laibach’s Geburt einer Nation, which is basically Queen’s One Vision – translated to German.