Novelbright's "愛とか恋とか" [Love, romance, that sort of thing] is a song about being so far gone on someone that the ordinary words for it stop working. The title is the joke and the point: the chorus says his feelings are "愛とか恋とかの言葉で片付けられないくらいの" [too big to be tidied away with words like love or romance], and then, a little helplessly, "『愛してる』が溢れ出して" ["I love you" comes spilling out] anyway. The verb 片付ける usually means tidying a room, so he is saying these feelings will not fit in the box.
The verses are full of small, everyday proof. Even a gloomy Monday morning brightens when he pictures seeing her, and he notices that songs, films and even perfume he never cared about are suddenly his favourites, purely because "君が好きなものってだけでさ" [just because they are things you like]. The さ at the end is casual, chatty Japanese, a bit like tacking on "you know". He grins at her phone notifications and keeps dreaming about her after he wakes up. The bridge turns protective: when she shrugs things off with "「大丈夫だよ」" ["I'm fine"], he tells her "弱くてもいい 泣いてもいいんだよ" [it's okay to be weak, it's okay to cry]. Admitting his reasons for loving her might be "ありきたり" [ordinary, cliché] is honestly the sweetest line in the song.
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