Translate Song Titles

[bobadji]

I've used online translate tools and found no good translation. Please will someone try to translate

How Soon Is Now?

and

There is a Light that never goes out

into Chinese for me? I have heard they may not make nice Chinese sentences

[self-taught-mba]

What did they give you? (online tranlation)

Why didn't you like it?

[bobadji]

they seem to come up with a not very accurate translation.

For example

there is a light that never goes out translates to 有从未关的光, which when I translate back into English comes up as 'Has light which never closes'

how soon is now - 多快是现在 - Many is quickly the present

However the translator may just translate back into English poorly?

[Lu]

However the translator may just translate back into English poorly?

Both, of course.

关 means 'to close', but Chinese don't turn off the light, they close the light. Online translation tools don't understand such subtleties. 有 means 'there is' but also 'to have'.

有从未关的光 sounds ok (but wait for a native speaker); the other one would maybe be 現在是多快. Doesn't sound very well in Chinese, but that shouldn't be a problem for a song title.