So I'm trying to translate this song (full lyrics at
<https://www5.atwiki.jp/hmiku/pages/35243.html>, if anyone's interested), and
I came across these lines which I'm not sure about: 恋と飾って 静かな方へ 汚れきった言葉を Now I
think the first phrase would mean "decorate with love," "with" as in, love and
another person are decorating together? I couldn't find any other use of と
with 飾る besides, "together with", though that doesn't make much sense to me.
As for the second phrase, "Towards quietness" is all I can get out of it, and
I would think to translate it, combining it with the last phrase, as "In a
rather quiet way, the words had become dirty." But I feel like that leaves a
lot out, especially because it doesn't get the へ in there, but I'm lost as to
how to include that.  
Thank you for your help!
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translation particles particle-と song-lyrics
Please help with translation: 静かな方へ
Translating lyrics or poetry in general is a pretty nontrivial task,
especially with a highly context-sensitive language like Japanese. However, I
also did it when I was just starting out and while my translations weren't
great, in the process I did learn quite a few things, so keep at it.

To translate the line properly, you should take into account the full song or
at least the surrounding stanza. Line by line translation rarely works with
Japanese lyrics.

Even after reading the whole song I'm not sure about the meaning of the quoted
line but here's a few thoughts (which could be completely wrong ;):

To start with, the verb applied to 言葉を is probably 混ざって used later. As for 方へ,
the verb seems to be missing completely but usually へ implies movement towards
something/someplace so you can try to use a fitting movement verb
(go/fly/arrive/etc.). And 方 itself is probably used in the literal meaning of
"direction" but you can try to substitute it with things like "place" or
"somewhere".
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恋 **と** 飾って is literally closer to "decorate something _as if it were_ love."
Note that it is not 恋 **で** 飾って ("decorate with love"). In this context it
perhaps means "(We) pretend as if there was love (although there is actually
not)", "(We) disguise ourselves as (being in) love".

静かな方【ほう】へ is "to the more quiet place". This 方 is not "way/method" but it's
something you find when you make a comparison in Japanese.

As for 汚れきった言葉を, I doubt it's grammatically related to the previous phrase.
The omitted verb is either 聞く or 言う, but probably you can translate it simply
as "A dirty word."
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