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Working on translating a song by hand. I'm getting stuck on this line:

`助けてくださいなんて言えればさぁ`

`助けてくださいなんて` looks like "Please help me!"

`言えればさぁ` seems like "if I ask for it."

So, does this sentence then mean, "Please help me if I ask for it" ? But that
doesn't seem to fit with the "さぁ" at the end... Any hints?
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Oddly structured "-ba" verb
言えれば would mean "If I could say" since the れ in there indicates the potential
form. (Obviously the pronoun I could be replaced with he/she/it/whatever as
appropriate in context.)

I would translate 助けてくださいなんて言えれば as "If I could say 'please help me'" or "if
only I could ask for help".
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