Hi everyone! I'm new here, mostly hoping for help with occasional grammar questions. よろしくお願いします！
So, I'm listening to a pop song, and the chorus goes like this:
側にいてあなたなら
側にいてあなたじゃなきゃ嫌
I understand all the parts, but I don't quite understand how they fit together. If it was by itself, I'd read the second line "I must be with you" (Is that right? Lit: "If I'm not beside you it will be awful"). But I'm not sure I get what the line before that is doing. Does that "nara" go with the "iya", like the "ja nakya" does? So the whole thing would be something like "I can't stand to be with you, I must be with you"? That would make sense contextually- it's an ambivalent break-up song. Or is that "nara" up there doing something else I don't understand?
Thanks,
Lauranne
So, I'm listening to a pop song, and the chorus goes like this:
側にいてあなたなら
側にいてあなたじゃなきゃ嫌
I understand all the parts, but I don't quite understand how they fit together. If it was by itself, I'd read the second line "I must be with you" (Is that right? Lit: "If I'm not beside you it will be awful"). But I'm not sure I get what the line before that is doing. Does that "nara" go with the "iya", like the "ja nakya" does? So the whole thing would be something like "I can't stand to be with you, I must be with you"? That would make sense contextually- it's an ambivalent break-up song. Or is that "nara" up there doing something else I don't understand?
Thanks,
Lauranne