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Old 5th April 2015, 07:12 PM
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So I read the lyrics in full and in order and I kinda got this picture:

There's definitely two Ayus. The product and the person. I don't know much about the product but whatever. The point is that the person (hereafter new ayu) yearns for the product (old ayu). The big giveaways are the music which sound like music from early parts of her career. That's the initial basis and also why I don't think she's talking about nagase. She's definitely not talking about her ex husband, current husband or Maro. I haven't formulated a real analysis yet but I wrote this about A Bell "No lyrics but it's a single bell. Not two or more. Just one. By itself. The bell rings by itself, it beats its own drum. Ayu beats her own drum. She's in this by herself, she's alone. But judging by how happy the music seems to sounds she's not unhappy."
She initially acknowledges through nonverbal communication that she is alone. But does she really like this or not? In general the lyrics made it sound like she was yearning for her past self. Already in warning she's acknowledging that she doesn't want to become her old self. Hanging around someone makes you become more like them. In no future she's questioning why they met. The next few songs ayu is like "ok I want you and I wanna do something so that you'll be mine, but it feels like you're slipping away and I feel selfish for wanting you back." In out of control ayu is giving hypocritical lyrics and basically being crazy about wanting herself back. In story it seems like she's acknowledging that they can't be together anymore and is like 'we betta reincarnate and be together again.' Now for the gift, which I think is ayu who's finally lost it. She's obsessed with herself and wants to marry herself. The whole song isn't factual though. It never really happened. She acknowledges this in the show must go on. She can't be with her old self but she still has to keep on living. She knows she's gonna be alone. But even in this song she still yearns for her old self just a lil bit. Walk acknowledges her loneliness even more. It feels like she's in touch with her old self but they're not together as ayu wants it (she wants to get married to her). However I think the general picture with A Bell and Warning being first and even Movin On Without You, ayu is getting out of her storytelling and saying that she's gonna be alone. No more product ayu. From now on she's a person.

So I really think she's singing to herself and not about a lover. I mean she does love herself. She just wants to become her old self again but she knows it isn't happening. that OR she is trying to tell the fans that she won't become her old self back in her heyday. Warning stands out for a reason!!! It's the most blunt song. She's like don't expect the stuff I did before. Then the rest of the songs 3-11 are her own love letter to herself STAGING the situation to the fans. She's trying to show us in a somewhat dramatic love story that she isn't gonna reunite with her old self. Essentially she's gonna do her own thing from now on, whatever that may be. The music on this album sounds like her old stuff and it isn't reinventing anything or being progressive since she's copying that old sound. While she's giving fans nostalgia she's telling them it won't happen anymore. She's being ironic. Or something like that.

I hope this made sense even though it was a very general analysis.

Last edited by Delicious n Bold; 5th April 2015 at 07:21 PM.