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Do you mean "kimi ja nakya dame de"? That's really just an example of a line that's hard to translate, since "ja nakya" and "dame" don't really have straightforward english equivalents. As a result, there's subtext we can only glean from the previous lyrics. Masa's translation of "I can't think of anyone but you" is a BIG leap from the data we've actually gotten from the line, and he's based that translation on the story of the lyrics up to that point. It's more literally "if not you, useless/bad." Needless to say, there's alot you can do with that.
If you're referring more to the "doushite tokidoki... etc" part, lines with similar structure is a technique many lyricists use to emphasize a point or hammer in a message, and also (on a more cosmetic level) to make lyrics easier for themselves and their fans to memorize (although it often has the opposite effect, lol). But she's used that idea in other songs too, like "Moments", "A Song for XX", "Will," and several others.
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