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> 聖夜【せいや】だなんだと繰【く】り返【かえ】す歌【うた】と (song lyric)

(then it goes like: わざとらしくきらめく街【まち】のせいかな )

More specifically, I cannot decide which character belongs to where in
"だなんだと". Is it the expression なんだ or is it a form of "なのです" (even though I
didn't know this was possible after a だ).
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grammar set-phrases song-lyrics
"だなんだと" meaning
It should be "聖夜(せいや)が鳴(な)ったとくり返(かえ)す歌(うた) と"

It means "The song that kept playing during the christmas night"

with "わざとらしくきらめく街(まち)のせいかな"

It means "I blame the song that kept playing during the christmas night and
the purposely well-decorated street"

The singer wants to express "why did I fell in love? oh, it's the song and
street's fault."
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It's actually "何{なん}だ", and here 何 works as a stand-in for things that you
want to avoid mentioning, or that you think are not worth mentioning, by name.
So no, it's not a form of "なのです".

More relevantly, we can think of "XXXだ何{なん}だ" as a set phrase meaning
something like "XXX and whatnot".

The "と" right after it is a quotative/complementizer "と", indicating
"聖夜{せいや}だなんだ" is what the song repeats (though the substitution of 何{なん} is by
_our_ songwriter), and the whole "聖夜{せいや}だなんだと繰返す{くりかえす}" is a relative clause
modifying "歌{うた}".

Thus we may translate "聖夜{せいや}だなんだと繰返す{くりかえす}歌{うた}" to "(the) song that keeps
on about it being the Holy Night and all that stuff". (The "と" that comes
after it is a conjunction: "and")
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