I'm trying to translate a song as practice and I absolutely cannot figure out
what this one line means:

> 「蝕んだ身体に愛を入れて欲しいと  
>  慣れない産声を上げた」

(It's a bit graphic, and I apologize!)

Anyway, I get the whole wanting-to-put-your-love-into-a-rotted-body thing, but
the second part is throwing me off.

Is the と particle in this case being used as a quotation marker? That's what
I'm thinking because of the 「産声を上げた」...though apparently that phrase can also
mean "being born". And the adjective before it confuses me even more.
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Translation Help? 「産声を上げた」
産声 is defined as "the first cry of a baby". 産声を上げる is a common fixed idiom
which effectively means "to be born", but it's not a good idea to translate
this as "to be born" in this case. Without any further context, "cried like a
baby" is the safest translation I can think of.

The 慣れない part basically indicates that "crying like a baby" is not what she
does often (ie. 産声 is unfamiliar to herself, not to her partner). I'm not sure
how to translate this nicely...

と in the first line is the quotation particle, and the following verb is often
left unsaid. See: [verb+ようにと、 or
verb+かと、](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/21680/5010)
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