Meaning of more Kishi Bashi lyrics: けや けや それや どうせね


Kishi Bashi: ["Bright Whites"](http://www.songlyrics.com/kishi-bashi/bright-
whites-lyrics/)

Transliterating from the ローマ字 lyrics, (so I don't know which kanji is meant):

> けや けや それや どうせね  
>  けや けや それや どうせ だめだ  
>  やめられない やめられない  
>  どうせ だめだけど やめられない ね

and then a second verse with たえられない in place of やめられない.

Specifically I'm curious about the meaning of the line

> けや けや それや どうせね.

Google translate does not seem to offer a consistent translation of this, and
the term けや only translates as "things like hair". Plus the repetition seems
significant.

Also, what's the nuance of どうせ (as compared with どう by itself)?

Anyway if all this is not "standard" Japanese, it's worth knowing.




Google seems to have interpreted the first line as 毛や毛や ("hairs and hairs"),
which is of course nonsense.

AFAIK ケヤ means nothing. In lyrics a meaningless word that just sounds nice can
appear (e.g., "la la la", "[du bi du bi du bi du du
du](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a051a6d/l01a7b8.html)",
"[ババンババンバンバン](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a001629/l009ffd.html)"), so ケヤ may be
one of them.

どうせ is a single word that means "anyway" or "no matter what is done", and it
precedes something negative/unwanted (だめ/やめられない/たえられない in this case). どう
("how") is quite different.




Google seems to have interpreted the first line as 毛や毛や ("hairs and hairs"),
which is of course nonsense.

AFAIK ケヤ means nothing. In lyrics a meaningless word that just sounds nice can
appear (e.g., "la la la", "[du bi du bi du bi du du
du](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a051a6d/l01a7b8.html)",
"[ババンババンバンバン](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a001629/l009ffd.html)"), so ケヤ may be
one of them.

どうせ is a single word that means "anyway" or "no matter what is done", and it
precedes something negative/unwanted (だめ/やめられない/たえられない in this case). どう
("how") is quite different.

