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"kuyuru"
does not register as a word when you type it in hiragana
(I didn't know it)...and I couldn't quite read the kanji.
I looked up what I thought it was and got...."banana."
(laughs) It was highly amusing.
Here's
my interpretation (long! gomen!): Hydrangea are beautiful
flowers that bloom all over Japan in the spring and signal
the rainy season. I myself have memories of looking out
my window through the streaks of rainwater and seeing them
lining the coblestone garden paths during the spring...actually,
sometimes I'll smell a certain fragrance, like some sort
of flower or perfume, but when I ask, no one else smells
it. All I know is that, whatever it is, it's something from
Japan. I miss Japan, I really do. Ajisai are very nostalgic
flowers. But then, it's a very nostalgic sounding song too.
(in
hanakotoba it means: patient love, a genki woman, so that's
irrelevant)
In
the beginning of the song I get the sense that he's a mermaid
or a memory, and that this song is tied to "Silvery
Darkness." For example, the "wet wind" that
touches his cheek and blows by reminds me of the tears on
the cheek of the character in SD...*maybe the abbreviation
for "semi-demented" isn't going to work here,
hm* Plus in Silvery he's up on land watching everything
flow away on the tide, and this character is with the tide.
Anyhow, I see it as the two of them having separated, and
singer now still feels traces of the other person, but has
forgotten/burried everything about him. I'm probably missing
something, but we'll know what it's really about when he
explains it (he said he would, no?)
Did
you know that Unicorns are supposed to act like this (according
to the last unicorn ^__^)? Maybe it applies to all over
magical creatures as well, like mermaids, walkure, and the
Kentucky Fried Chicken man. Quoth the movie, unicorns can
show affection and remember people vaguely, but they don't
feel love or regret. In the Last Unicorn, however, the unicorn
becomes human for a while and falls in love with the prince,
and when she becomes a unicorn again she does remember him.
She's a unicorn though, and returns to her forest alone
to remember him for eternity. The message for me was that
you can't be lonely or know what loneliness is,
until you've found someone who makes you not lonely anymore.
I
always cried when that movie ended. Well I did until I wore
out the tape, and then it kind of stopped ending. When I
told my friend in Japan about it he went and watched it
because it rules (laughs).
...hm.
As a note, since this is the last song on the CD and I've
said nothing of any critical or recommendatory nature...
I love this song. Completely, in case you couldn't tell.
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