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Meaning of ど in 碧羅の天へ誘えど?

It's been years, and I still don't know what the ど in this song title means. It doesn't seem like it's 度｛ど｝, and I've tried looking up ど as a suffix many times before but the most I've come up with is that it might mean "place"? So maybe…
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meaning of ブラバン

I came across this phrase in a song I recently listened to: ブラバンが プーとラッパを吹いた. I've not been able to find out what ブラバン means, researching I found it might mean "music band" but I'm not sure how to directly translate the sentence, it doesn't make…
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What is the specific meaning of 時の函 in this song lyric?

I came across a song (琥珀ト瑠璃ノ輪舞曲) where there's a line "時の函に横たわっていた". I know the meaning of the words individually , "時の" = of a certain time, "函" = box, "横たわる" = lying down /stretching out. But putting them to together in the sentence makes no…
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The Quintessential Quintuplets (aka 五等分の花嫁) : Is 届くんです (it reaches) a mondegreen that should be 五等分です (It's divided into five equal parts)?

In animesonglyrics, you can see in the season 1 opening (Gotoubun no Kimochi) for the anime adaptation of The Quintessential Quintuplets the Romaji: Go-tōbundesu, demo (...) --> the Kanji of which I think is: 五等分です, でも (...) the English: It…
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Meaning of のが in this sentence?

I’m wondering what the meaning of のが would be in this: 世界が君の小さな肩に乗っているのが I understand the whole sentence and translated it just toc check but for some reason I can’t seem to think what on Earth the のが at the end does. I’d like to clarify that it’s…
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What does 拭いて も みて も 落ちね mean?

This is a line from a song, and the previous one is "My reflection in a mirror so tainted I can´t see a thing"
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Help with translation of song line - confusing use of particles, unsure how to deal with a pun

So I was trying to translate this song (full lyrics here) but there's this one line that I can't make sense out of. その餌で凍えて誂えて　この折に巣食い尽くす　この唄を　捧げます。 With that bait, freeze and make to order. Completely building a nest in this opportunity, I…
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