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> あなたの耳のむこう
>
> 夕日がきれいね
>
> 息をかけたら消えそう

Source: <http://j-lyric.net/artist/a000c13/l00f5ed.html>

Song on the Youtube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Zm8sorINQ>

Translating the three lines literally

> The sun beyond your ears
>
> is so beautiful
>
> feels like my breath (out) would disappear (I might be misunderstanding or
> mistranslating this part. I don't know how else I would translate 息をかける)

Further down, she says

> 夏がゆく頃に恋も終わるって
>
> 誰が決めたそんなこと
>
> 私は信じない

Which makes think the season is summer. Further down, she also talks about
Beach Boys playing on the radio. Which further strengthens the summer feeling.

> ふとつけたのカーラジオ
>
> 流れてクルのは ビーチボーイズ

If the season is summer, first three lines (third line especially) sound
confusing

> あなたの耳のむこう 夕日がきれいね

The setting sun beyond your ears is beautiful.

Sun beyond the ears strikes me as an odd way of putting it somehow. I wonder
if it actually means something else and how does it tie up with first two
lines before?

And then the third line says

> 息をかけたら消えそう

Why does she say "as if my breath would disappear" here if the season is
summer?
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Help me understand the first three lines from 松任谷由実’ｓ　「甘い予感」
This 耳の向こう looked puzzling to me too at first, but the same person is saying
あなたの肩に顔を埋めた, so I think she is seeing the sun literally "beyond your ear". I
don't think 耳の向こう is related to some idiom.

息をかけたら消えそう means "If I blow on it, it might disappear", where "it" refers to
the sun (息をかける = "to blow on something", 息をはく = "to breathe out"). Throughout
the lyrics, she is basically worrying that everything is about to go away, so
I guess this line expresses her anxiety, too.
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