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As always, we have to take non-sentence poetry at face value; sometimes it is
almost always ambiguous, but there is probably another perspective I am over
looking. Taking a look at the final verse from きのこ帝国's second track from 渦になる,
titled "退屈しのぎ" ([full lyrics and transcription / translation I'm working
on](https://genius.com/12611903)):

```

    唐突に始まるお前の昔話
    聞きながらアルペジオ
    冴えないノンフィクションの結末を
    握っているお前の手は冷たいから嫌だ
    やさぐれ吐く息に混じる声が歌い出す
    
```

The bits of this verse fall out pretty easily, but the way they fit together
is a little hard for me. My attempt:

**唐突に始まるお前の昔話** == "Suddenly _it_ begins, _your reminiscence_ "

**聞きながらアルペジオ** == Is the 昔話 being listen to, as in "while listening"? (Could
it be ながら "although [in which case, does this imply an arpeggio is being
"played"?]) Is this 聞き as in "ask"? Why is アルペジオ surrounded by no verb phrase
or particles? Is it アルペジオを as in アルペジオをする?

**冴えないノンフィクションの結末を** == "concludes _the dark / sullen non-fiction_ "

Could this 冴えない mean "boring / uninteresting" ? Does アルペジオがノンフィクションの結末する mean
the same, as in, the arpeggio concludes the non-fiction?

**握っているお前の手は冷たいから嫌だ** == Does this 握っている describe お前, resulting in something
like, "Your hand, that I'm clutching, is cold, so I hate (holding) it"

**やさぐれ吐く息に混じる声が歌い出す** == "Sings in a voice with a sulking breath"
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Trouble parsing lyrics under lack of particles
As far as parsing goes, my brain is intuitively seeing three
["sentences"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/48863/5010) in this verse.

  * 唐突に始まるお前の昔話(を)聞きながら、アルペジオ。
  * 【｛（冴えないノンフィクションの結末）を握っている→｝お前の手】は、冷たいから嫌だ。
  * ｛（やさぐれ吐く息）に混じる声｝が、歌い出す。

Note:

  * Some verb after アルペジオ is omitted. What's omitted is a very hard question for me. One easy option is to extract the アルペジオ part as a sentence word (like "Parsley sage rosemary and thyme.").
  * 冴えないノンフィクションの結末 = the ending of a boring/uninteresting/mediocre non-fiction story
  * ～を握っている = to have control/discretion over ～
  * 握っているお前: 握っている modifies お前 (this is perfectly fine in Japanese), and お前 is the person who is doing the action of 握る.
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