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Old 10th July 2014, 05:02 PM
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Ah, I gave a completely different meaning to Wake me up and snowy kiss.

Wake me up for me it's obviously about her world (herself, her mind, her heart, her career, her EVERYTHING) and she's just screaming at whoever she let in to, well, get the hell out of there, lol.
She's saying things like "This is MY castle" and "Just leave it alone already".
I noticed she lately seems to have developed the habit to run away from a situation when it becomes expecially painful. She did it with Mannie and Maro, she just... ends things. In Party Queen, during the song "call", she says "Though I've become very good at preteding that I've forgotten it all". And to me Party Queen feels like a short parenthesis. She doesn't want to talk about what happened anymore, she just wants to be happy (and for me this is what LOVE again is about: she desperately want to start over, not address that moment anymore, just treasure the experiences and learn from them).

snowy kiss too, imo, is about her panicking and not knowing how to deal with the situation when it became twisted. She sings "To continue to send out these feelings / Means to continue feeling them / I know, I know, but / I can’t stop it, I don’t know how", which I interpreted as a "I still feel something for this person, but I don't know what to do, I can't stop this urge I have to just turn my back and pretend this never happened".
She finishes this song begging the snow to just erase everything. She doesn't want anyone, let alone her, to bring it up anymore. She wants to start anew. She walks away while the other is asleep and just disappear.

Of course, i find the idea of her being a "relationship addict" brilliant, and I think the album addressed that too, in many ways. Ayu is able to talk about quite a lot of things in the same song anyway.
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