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What is the function of から in the beginning of the song by 浅川マキ?

> 夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗る **から**
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> 夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗るのよ
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song-lyrics conditionals particle-から
What is function of から in conditional statement?
It means because, but to the reason that is pointed out by the "because" is
not written in this sentence. Probably was mentioned in the previous sentence.

> A:どうしてそんなに早く寝にいくの？  
>  B:夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗る **から**
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> A:Why you go to sleep so early?  
>  B: **Because** I ride the earliest train in the morning.

Note that から can also be used to mean **from** or **after/and then** but when
this kind is used after a verb, it must be in its て form.

> 乗ってから･･･
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Here are the [original lyrics](http://sp.uta-
net.com/search/kashi.php?TID=27185):

> 夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗る **から**  
>  切符を用意してちょうだい  
>  私のために一枚でいいからさ  
>  今夜でこの街とはさよならね  
>  わりといい街だったけどね

The から in the first line simply means "because", and the first line works as
the reason for the second line. " **Because** I will ride the first train when
dawn breaks, please arrange a ticket (for me)." or "I will ride the first
train when dawn breaks, **so** please arrange a ticket (for me)."
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Here are the [original
lyrics](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a00283c/l004934.html):

【セリフ】 _narrated_

> (1) 夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗る **から**  
>  (2) 夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗るのよ

(3) 夜が明けたら 夜が明けたら

【歌】 _sung_  
(4) 夜が明けたら一番早い汽車に乗るから  
(5) **切符を用意してちょうだい**  
(6) 私のために一枚でいいからさ  
(7) 今夜でこの街とはさよならね  
(8) わりといい街だったけどね

The questioner showed only lines (1) and (2) of the lyrics, and asked us the
meaning of から in line (1).  
Now we know the answer is line (5), which is the reason of から in line (1).

How do you guess line (5) by the hint of lines (1) and (2)?  
It's a very difficult problem.

I think naruto's answer is correct, but stack reader's answer is more than
that.

Let's consider the structure of the lyrics.  
I think the normal order of these sentences/lines are as:

(3) 夜が明けたら 夜が明けたら  
(2) 夜が明けたら（私は）一番早い汽車に乗るのよ

(1) 夜が明けたら（私は）一番早い汽車に乗る **から**  
(4) 夜が明けたら（私は）一番早い汽車に乗るから  
(5) **切符を用意してちょうだい**

Lines (3) and (2) make one sentence which expresses the strong will of _me_.  
Lines (1) , (4) and (5) make another sentence which tells someone else the
reason why _I_ need a ticket for the train.

There is the art of speaking or writing in a way that is likely to persuade or
influence people, which is called rhetoric. Hyperbaton and anastrophe are
typical terms of rhetoric and they would alter or invert the syntactic order
of the words in a sentence or separate normally-associated words in order to
emphasize or make effect in a much greater degree. Usually the rhetoric is
done in a sentence, but in these lyrics it is done between sentences, which, I
think, is a very high technique of rhetoric. The reason it could achieve this
high technique is that the same phrase as line (4) is placed at line (1) just
like laying an underplot there.
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