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As far as I know "koko ni oide" means "come here", but what does "to" add to
the sentence "koko ni oide to". The context of the phrase is

> 今、 あなたの声が聴こえる  
>  ｢ここにおいで｣と
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particle-と word-order anastrophe
What does と mean in 「ここにおいで」と?
This と is a simple
[quotative-と](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotative#Japanese), and this
sentence is a typical example of a rhetoric device called 転置法
([hyperbaton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaton)) or 倒置法 (anastrophe).
This is very common in Japanese poetry/slogans/lyrics because the grammatical
role of a word is mainly expressed by the particle type rather than the word
order.

  * [Does word order change the meaning of a sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/19433/5010)

Semantically this sentence is the same as 今、 ｢ここにおいで｣とあなたの声が聴こえる, where ここにおいで
is the content of the voice which was heard by the speaker. The original
sentence sounds more dramatic because of the reversed word order.
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