Why is あります used in 「どうかあなたが幸せでありますように」?

Question

I’m trying to understand the line in bold from the song “Unlasting” by LiSA:

あなたの香りあなたの話し方
今も身体中に愛の欠片が残ってるよ
私の願い私の願いはただ
どうかあなたが幸せでありますように

What I don’t understand is the use of あります here. I think it can be translated as “Somehow you seem to be happy”. However, unless I miss something, あります(有る) should be used for inanimate objects while for animates one should use います(居る).

Thanks! 🙏🏻🙇🏻

Answer 1

In this case you want to consider であります as a whole. であります means "to be or is" and is being applied to 幸せ (happiness). So 幸せであります is something like is happiness, be happiness, or etc in a literal sense. The ように here also signifies that this is intended as a wish or hope. Also the どうか at the beginning is like "please" or adds emphasis onto this wish or hope.

So this line is something like (without explicitly expressing どうか):

どうかあなたが幸せでありますように

I hope that you are happy

Explicitly expressing どうか as "truly"

I truly hope that you are happy