とし in this sentence, among other problems I was trying to translate this song (full lyrics here: < ) and I'm having a lot of trouble with these two lines: > > "Trapped by the chaos, having put on my mourning clothes, a rose in my worm-eaten right hand, I make a decision to blot out my crime (btw is pronounced )" is what I could figure out. Mostly I'm confused about here. I would think it's a continuative of , but the only uses I could find with are the typical ~ and volitional + , which doesn't seem to apply here. And I'm not sure if (which is pronounced ) should even be "decision" or "fate." Literally I could only translate the last line based on context also; as you can see, I'm very confused! Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Yes it's the continuative form of , and I think it's "typical " you already know, with omitted because it's already mentioned in the previous sentence(?). It just means "consider something " or "regard something as ".

can mean the same thing as , doom, fate, etc.

So "regarding it (=) as my(?) fate, ..."

See:

* Adjective +
* what is the meaning of a