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First of all, sorry if something about my English grammar is wrong. English is
not my native language and, even if I can understand it very well, writing and
expressing myself is something I still have to improve. Thank you!

I am trying to understand (not translate) the lyrics of the song "Maboroshi no
Inochi" by Sekai no Owari. I started with the first line and almost
immediately I had problems understanding it.

The first line is this:

> 白い星が降る夜に 僕からの賛美歌を

The first half of the sentence is OK, but the second half confused me a bit,
mostly because of the expression "からの" and the "を" at the end of the sentence.

I first thought that the "を" was because the sentence was incomplete and it
had a connection with the second sentence (蒼い銀河の彼方にUFOが 君を連れて消えていく), but it
doesn't (or at least I can not see it). I did some research and, from what I
could understand, "を" at the end of the sentence is used like a replacement
for kanojo, kare, anata, etc. I have already read the translation of the song
some time ago, and, apparently, the person who translated it interpreted "を"
like "you", so, it appears to work but I never trust translations.

"からの" looked more simple, and from what I found it means "from" (+ person),
which in this case is 僕 (boku).

The first time I read the translation in English, I thought that with the
"you" he (the singer) was talking to the audience/person who is listening to
the song, but now that I know that the "を" can be replaced with different
persons, and considering the context and motive of the song (a song to the
child that the singer and the pianist of the band lose), I interpret it as for
his daughter.

So, considering it all, the line means that in a starry night, he sings/sang a
hymn (賛美歌) to (for) his daughter (Tsukishi)?

Sorry if it is too long, but my level of Japanese is not really good and I
never trust what I understand because, most of the time, it is wrong. Thank
you!
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translation particle-の particle-を song-lyrics particle-から
Is it a right interpretation of the line of this Japanese song?
"からの" is used when you want to describe how one noun is coming from another
noun. So "僕からの賛美歌" means "a song of praise (or hymn) from me". Another example
usage is 君からのプレゼント ("a present from you").

The particle "を" is very different than you describe. Put simply, it describes
the action of a verb, like りんごを食べる (eat an apple), where the action of
"eating" is "(an/the) apple"

Here, the verb that goes with the を in the first line is not stated. But it is
likely "sing", as in "僕からの賛美歌を(歌う)"

The を doesn't say anything about who the song is being sung for, you must
interpret that for yourself.
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を is always an object marker in modern Japanese. It never replaces personal
pronouns. Where did you see such a rule?

`noun + を` at the end of a sentence is a fairly common device found in lyrics,
slogans, posters and such. In general, it often means "I/We want/need ～" or
"Give ～".

>   * 彼女にお茶を。 (lit. "(we need) Tea to her") Serve her a cup of tea.
>   * 犯罪者に死を！ Death to the criminal!
>   * 動物実験廃止を！ (lit. "(we need) abolition of animal testing") No More Animal
> Testing!
>   * 君にさよならを Goodbye To You (song title)
>

See:

  * [Does the particle "を" (wo) have a special use when at the end of a sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/1209/5010)
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