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Originally Posted by Alucard from Hellsing
Maybe it's just my imagination, but I think she was trying to show us (with all three videos) that it's getting difficult for her to walk this road. It's like people don't understand her like before (In MW it's just obvious thnx to the lyrics, and I think it's not only about her ex-boyfriend), don't want to understand or don't even care. I don't know.  That's just my IMO. 
Yep, you're right only Ayu knows the true meaning...  |
I think its really quite the opposite.
Looking at the lyrics in Mirrorcle World, it's quite simple in their meaning.
Summarizing, including both first and second verses and the first chorus,
"Did you imagine this future? Did you? Did I hope for this future? Did you? Can I accept this era? Can you? They asked is this the beginning or the end? They asked if I gave up, or still holding on? Have you turned on them, or are you in despair? Didn't you tell me just to go forward?"
To really understand this song, I think you have to look to the song that was couple with Mirrorcle World, not YOU, but:
"Depend on you"
If we go back to the lyrics of Depend on you, lets summarize ~
"Do you realize how far the goal you set out is? Where should you go, and what should we do with these days that don't end? It's okay to rest your wings, because I'm here. If you are going to fly away, if that day comes, let's go together."
I believe, instead of a direct connection between Mirrorcle World, GREEN, and Days, these songs have a direct connection to the song they are coupled with.
In Mirrorcle World, I do not believe she is talking to anyone but herself when she alternates between I and You in the verses.
In my opinion, she is simply talking to the old her, and the new her.
Same as in Depend on you, it seems she could be talking to herself too.
In 1998, she wrote: "Do you realize how far the goal you set out is?"
in 2008, she wrote: "Did I imagine this future? Did you?"
It seems like Mirrorcle World is the direct answer, 10 years into the future, to the question in Depend on you.
She still can't believe or could have imagined what her goal would turn in to, 10 years after this question was asked.
In 1998, she wrote: "Where should you go, and what should we do with these days that don't end"
In 2008, she wrote: "They asked is this the beginning or the end?"
It seems she still has a problem with the beginning and the end.
Even though she may have realized where the end is, other's around her have not.
In 1998, she wrote: "It's okay to rest your wings, because I'm here."
In 2008, she wrote: "They asked if I gave up, or still holding on?"
It seems here that even though she believed she could rest sometimes,
People around her continue to push her, asking if she is just going to give up.
For the last example, I wanna examine the second verse in Depend on you.
When she asked if she will try to believe in a ray of light, or hide in the darkness.
The line that interests me most in this response to Depend on you, is:
"Was it that you turned on them, or was it that you were in despair?"
In the first, and last verse of Mirrorcle World.
Even though she herself said it was okay to fly away one day,
Even though she reached out and tried to believe in the ray of light she asked if she could believe,
The people around her couldnt accept the changes she wanted to make,
And decided that she simply turned on them.
Like Wada Akiko cell phone incident, like the Japanese public, etc.
And they ask her, like she once asked herself
"Are you hiding in the darkness? / Are you in despair?"
But the crucial lyrics in that ones is:
In 1998, she wrote: "If you are going to fly away, if that day comes, let's go together."
In 2008, she wrote: "Didn't you tell me just to go forward?"
And the last lyrics of Mirrorcle World tell us her true answer to Depend on you..
"Is it that I've become strong that I can be not crying,
Or..."
I believe the "or..." indirectly refers to the last line in Depend on you.
The reason why she has become able to not cry, is not because she has become strong, although she certainly has,
But because her story, and indeed songs, are no longer filled with "uncertainty and hope," as she wrote in Depend on you, but just hope.
Even in Green, it is overflowing with hope.
Even in talkin' 2 myself, the dark song, it is overflowing with hope.
>"Through destruction, creation is born"
The story of Ayumi Hamasaki has changed since Depend on you,
And she has answered the questions she posed in that song from 10 years ago to herself.
She is not the weak Ayumi Hamasaki who punished herself in monochrome by cutting her declaration that she is strong,
And she is not the weak Ayumi Hamasaki who could not find her place.
She herself wrote..
"Because I have all of you, I dont need a left ear. You will be my ear."
EDIT: It takes only a very strong person to be able to say something like that, about such a necessary thing for a singer.
She has found her place, and she has found out how to rest,
And be at peace with herself.
And she herself said in CDL 2007 ~ 2008
"I am never alone. You are never alone."
Mirrorcle World, no matter how loud, or how powerful this song sounds,
I think its a really actually just a song of hope, or endurance, and of content.
A song that states "My original goal has not changed: to go forward.
No matter how far that goal is, no matter how many times I am questioned,
I will not play the victim and run away."
Of course, the entirety of Mirrocle World runs as a response, at least in my opinion to Depend on you..
You can easily see the responses in those lyric.
The response is:
"I will not give up, even if the road is hard."
I think what is also important in Mirrorcle World is she has posed a new set of questions for herself, or just one big one, to contemplate for her new mindframe:
"The acceleration shows no signs of stopping,
If we and this world continue on like this..."
What will happen????
Sorry for the long one~ it took a bit much to write, but~ ^^)
Of course, there are also some answers to YOU too,
But I feel Depend on you and Mirrorcle World are almost brother and sister ahaha.
Thats why I think she sang Depend on you, rather than poker face,
TRUST, or For my dear, etc.
To remind us of what she once asked herself.