Macaroni Empitsu wrote a love song about a guy who can't finish a sentence. He opens by admitting he has nothing going for him: no killer lines, no special looks. Then he says what she gave him: "きみがくれたのは愛や幸せじゃない" [what you gave me wasn't love or happiness], it was "とびっきりの普通と そこに似合う笑顔だ" [an extra-special ordinary, and the smile that fits right there]. That word とびっきり means "top-grade" or "the very best", and pairing it with 普通 ("ordinary") is the whole joke and the whole point.
The chorus is where he keeps tripping over himself. He lists the usual love-song lines (wanting to see her, to be near her, to protect her) and rejects each with そんなんじゃなくて, a casual way of saying "that's not it". The one thing he lands on is blunt: "ただ僕より先に死なないでほしい" [I just want you not to die before me]. Then he panics and backs off: "ああ やめときゃよかったな" [ah, I should've stopped there]. やめときゃ is a squashed, spoken form of やめておけば, "if I'd quit while I was ahead". So he covers it with "「何でもないよ」" [it's nothing], the thing everyone says when it's very much something, and that phrase is also the song's title. My favourite line is the last real one, "君といるときの僕が好きだ" [I like who I am when I'm with you]. After all that fumbling, it's the plainest sentence in the song, and he finally gets it out.
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