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A line from a Japanese song that I am trying to translate into English is
"たわいない 判らない 理由 存在". Separately I understand these words to mean trivial, don't
understand, reason, and existence, respectively, but I'm having trouble coming
up with a semantic translation. The best I've come up with is "The trivial,
incomprehensible reason for existence". I think what's throwing me off is the
"理由 存在" part. I feel like "存在 理由" makes more sense.

For context, the rest of the verse is:  
あなたと残す後悔  
誰も読めないカルテ  
不愉快 繰り返して

Which I have translated as:  
The regret after leaving you  
An inexplicable medical record  
The unpleasantness repeats

Thank you!
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Help translating line from Japanese song
Judging from the [whole
lyrics](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a05f0e3/l048f90.html), I must say this part
is intentionally constructed so that it looks somewhat like "word salad".
Throughout the lyrics, there are quite a few randomly-appearing words whose
grammatical roles are not clear to me (e.g., 鼓動, 眩暈, 思春期, ...). Maybe you have
to stop trying to parse them as a grammatical sentence. (Unfortunately many
Japanese songs are like this...) It appears to me that the lyrics focus more
on rhyming and rhythm than semantics. For example, "思春期 傷口 胸のうち" is
grammatically just three phrases placed in parallel, but it does rhyme (i-i-i)
and follow [the 4-4-5
pattern](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/30106/5010). Of course in this
case we can imagine a story like "I hide my adolescent wound within my heart",
but that may not be always possible.
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