From [this
song](http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/seireitsukai/bladedance.jis):

> 宙よりも高く 宙よりも高く  
>  どこまでも駆け昇っていくの  
>  心は気高く 心は気高く  
>  **そのまた先で感じていくの**  
>  あの日描いた未来を わたしたちの理想論を  
>  実現(させる) 踊る刃(やいば)達の祭壇へ

Can anyone explain how the line “そのまた先で感じていくの” relates to the rest?

My rough translation:

> _Higher than the sky, Higher than the sky  
>  We will keep ascending to new heights_  
>  **???**  
>  _To make the future we dreamed of that day into reality  
>  To realise our vision of an ideal world  
>  We head to the altar of dancing blades_

The two lines that I'm not sure of is how to express 心は気高く in English and what
it means by そのまた先で感じていくの.
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Need help understanding 心は気高く / そのまた先で感じていくの
I think that the problem is that you don't realize that また can be inserted
into その先, like

> その先の、その先の、その **また** 先 (のそのまたうーんと先)  
>  Further than that, further than _that_ and further than that **again** (and
> even further than _that_ )

The lines just before have

> 心は気高く 心は気高く

So, _beyond_ that place where "our hearts are sublime", we'll (actually) "be
experiencing that day, when we painted our future".

(Note that the part あの日描いた未来を would in a standard sentence come before
そのまた先で感じていく, like あの日描いた未来をその先で感じていく.)

I'm really bad at translations, but the grammar involving また is straight-
forward, I think.
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I assume that you are looking for the _object_ of the verb "感じる", because
you're interested in the relationship of this line and the rest of the lyrics.

There are three verbs ("感じる", "実現させる", "踊る") and two nouns with direct object
marker `を` ("未来を", "理想論を") in the last three lines. When I _read_ these lines,
the grammatical relationship of these words was not very clear to me (and I'm
a native Japanese speaker).

  1. "未来を感じていく" & "理想論を感じていく" & "実現する (w/o specific object)" ?
  2. "未来を感じていく" & "理想論を実現する" ?
  3. "感じていく (w/o specific object)" & "未来を実現する" & "理想論を実現する" ?

So I had to [listen to the song
directly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4H9Wvli2fY). And the way of singing
revealed that the first two interpretations are _very_ unlikely. It sounded
like "そのまた先で感じていくの" does not strongly relate to the subsequent lines, and the
object of 感じていく was not really specified anywhere.

As a result, "We'll keep on feeling, at somewhere even further than that" is
all that's explicitly written in the line. I'm not sure, but perhaps "(熱い)想い"
or some kind of fighting spirit which is sung all over the lyrics, is the
implicit target of 感じる here.
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