Help me understand the first three lines from 松任谷由実’ｓ　「甘い予感」


> あなたの耳のむこう
>
> 夕日がきれいね
>
> 息をかけたら消えそう

Source: <http://j-lyric.net/artist/a000c13/l00f5ed.html>

Song on the Youtube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Zm8sorINQ>

Translating the three lines literally

> The sun beyond your ears
>
> is so beautiful
>
> feels like my breath (out) would disappear (I might be misunderstanding or
> mistranslating this part. I don't know how else I would translate 息をかける)

Further down, she says

> 夏がゆく頃に恋も終わるって
>
> 誰が決めたそんなこと
>
> 私は信じない

Which makes think the season is summer. Further down, she also talks about
Beach Boys playing on the radio. Which further strengthens the summer feeling.

> ふとつけたのカーラジオ
>
> 流れてクルのは ビーチボーイズ

If the season is summer, first three lines (third line especially) sound
confusing

> あなたの耳のむこう 夕日がきれいね

The setting sun beyond your ears is beautiful.

Sun beyond the ears strikes me as an odd way of putting it somehow. I wonder
if it actually means something else and how does it tie up with first two
lines before?

And then the third line says

> 息をかけたら消えそう

Why does she say "as if my breath would disappear" here if the season is
summer?




This 耳の向こう looked puzzling to me too at first, but the same person is saying
あなたの肩に顔を埋めた, so I think she is seeing the sun literally "beyond your ear". I
don't think 耳の向こう is related to some idiom.

息をかけたら消えそう means "If I blow on it, it might disappear", where "it" refers to
the sun (息をかける = "to blow on something", 息をはく = "to breathe out"). Throughout
the lyrics, she is basically worrying that everything is about to go away, so
I guess this line expresses her anxiety, too.




This 耳の向こう looked puzzling to me too at first, but the same person is saying
あなたの肩に顔を埋めた, so I think she is seeing the sun literally "beyond your ear". I
don't think 耳の向こう is related to some idiom.

息をかけたら消えそう means "If I blow on it, it might disappear", where "it" refers to
the sun (息をかける = "to blow on something", 息をはく = "to breathe out"). Throughout
the lyrics, she is basically worrying that everything is about to go away, so
I guess this line expresses her anxiety, too.

