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This sentence is from a song's lyric _歌に形はないけれど_ (Youtube:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CV5wVHjMfQ&feature=youtu.be&t=136](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CV5wVHjMfQ&feature=youtu.be&t=136)).

How to understand that?

There are two Chinese translations:

> 你为我做过的一样 (It's just like you did for me)

> 你是这样的温柔 (You're so tender)

They're not same and both can't correspond to the original Japanese sentence
directly.

What's the real meaning of that? or how to interpret that?
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translation song-lyrics
how to interpret きみがそうだったように?
This is the context:

> 僕は歌うよ  
>  笑顔をくれた君が泣いてるとき  
>  ほんの少しだけでもいい  
>  君の支えになりたい
>
> 僕が泣いてしまった日に  
>  君がそうだったように

You can see the perspective is swapped symmetrically between the former and
the latter stanzas.

> (1) 僕 (subject) : 君が泣いてるとき : 君の支えになりたい  
>  (2) 君 (subject) : 僕が泣いてしまった日 : **そうだった**

Thus it is natural to think that そうだった could be replaced, with correct tense
and mood, by 僕の支えになった "was/became my anchor" (as a whole, 君が僕の支えになったように).

So, I don't think either translation you cited is wrong in this context,
except the second one lacks explicit translation of ～ように "just like", if I
have to nitpick.
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