YOU SAID:
Live was I, ere I saw evil
INTO JAPANESE
生きた私は、私は悪を見た
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I lived, I saw evil
INTO JAPANESE
私は生きていた、私は悪を見た
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I was alive, I saw evil
INTO JAPANESE
私は生きていた、私は悪を見た
BACK INTO ENGLISH
I was alive, I saw evil
That didn't even make that much sense in English.