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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
I'm pretty sure both are conjecture, but they're not without merit, and I agree with those interpretations. Having heard ayu talk about her grandmother crying as she left to record her first single, I think the last two lines of the song tie directly into that event.
Memorial address is a bit easier... look at the facts we can glean from the lyrics:
-The person who passed away wronged Ayu in a way she hopes they regret ("All I wanted to hear --even if it had been a lie, I don't care -- was that you regret that day back then.")
-They were supposed to be someone who loved Ayu, but she never heard them say it ("All I wanted to hear --even if it had been a lie, I don't care -- was that you really loved me. Just once would have been fine.")
-She wasn't anywhere around them at the end ("I don't even get to hear your final words")
-She was upset at this person for a very, very long time ("The curtain has closed on a sadness I thought would never end")
-But she's more angry than sad that they've passed away without giving her closure ("...The sky kept crying instead of me"/"Your farewell is so cold, I've come to hate it out of spite"/"Why, jus tlike that, at the very very end, have you left me with only memories?")
All that really fits the idea that Memorial address is about her father who left her when she was very small, and all she has are memories of him leaving, his fishing equipment still being left at the house, and her MAYBE being scolded by him when she was playing recklessly at Momochihama; She has no memories of him saying he loved her, she never got closure about his departure or whether or not he might have been proud of her success, she never got to say goodbye to him properly. In 2002 she told Time Magazine she might like to see him someday before she died, and if she never got that, then the frustration you can hear in this song is really understandable.
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By the way, about the bolded part... In a translation I read it says a complete opposite thing:
"I wish I could have heard from you
That you never regretted the days we had spent together
Only once, even if it had been a lie"
Could anyone fluent in Japanese tell me which translation is correct, please? ^^