Quidni Me Voces? (Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" in Latin)

[Editor’s Note: If you’re looking to go back in time to 2012 A.D. — and given the news today, why not — one of the most reliable ways is to put on Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe,” which dominated the airwaves that summer. And now you have a version of it in Latin, which will either be ten times more embarrassing or ten times less, depending on what kind of person you are. Jon Meyer’s Latin version manages to sound like idiomatic Latin while remaining close to the original — “Nunc es obviam” for “Now you’re in my way” actually sounds like it could be just as valid a way of suggesting a crush in Latin as it is in English (which is to say, not valid in either language, but we’re not worried about it). And the “furorem putes” for “this is crazy” is a brilliant Vergilism that would put this song comfortably into a modern musical version of the end of Book I of the Aeneid.]
CALL ME MAYBE/QUIDNI ME VOCES? (Carly Rae Jepsen) (Jepsen/Ramsay/Crowe)(tr. Jon Meyer)[2011]
Votum iec(i)
in puteo
ne quaeras, non narrabo
dum cadit, t(e) aspicio
et nunc es obviam
pro corde muto votum
pro assibus basium
hoc erat improvisum
sed nunc es obviam
[praechorus]
haeres defixus,
rarus, seminudus;
calet, fremit ventus
quonam es iturus, meli?
[chorus]
te iam conveni;
furorem putes:
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
Vix intueri
queo te, spes:
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
te iam conveni;
furorem putes:
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
me iuvenes sequi
conantur omnes;
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
[versus 2]
post moram me vocasti
haud mor(a) ego cecidi
nihil mihi dedisti
tamen es obviam
precor, mutuor, furor,
quod verumst, ominor,
dudum me sensur(um) ignor-o
sed est obviam
[praechorus]
haeres defixus,
rarus, seminudus;
calet, fremit ventus
quonam es iturus, meli?
[chorus]
te iam conveni;
furorem putes:
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
Vix intueri
queo te, spes:
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
te iam conveni;
furorem putes:
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
me iuvenes sequi
conantur omnes;
numerum cape:
quidni me voces?
[pons]
Antequam venist(i) in vitam
desiderabam
desiderabam
desiderabam te
Antequam venist(i) in vitam
desiderabam
(hoc est sciendum)
desiderabam te
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