What does Memorial address mean?
 

So I looked throughout the Enquiries forum (at least I think I did). Is it just me, or am I the only who doesn't exactly know the meaning behind the term "Memorial address"? I love the album, I love the song, but I just don't get the meaning those two words. Is it just a term Ayu coined, the way she did with LOVEppears? Or do they actually mean something? 0_o

I know the song has something to do with her being in denial about a person's death, but what does that have anything to do with the title?

Am I asking a silly question? :thud

oh i've always thought of it as a song with just a weird name

well memorial address...an address that's memorial, ayu is addressing a memory?

It's speculated that the song is dedicated to her father, much like teddy bear was.

An "address," in terms of speaking, is a speech. Like the Gettysburg Address. And Memorial is like in memory of someone or something, so it's a Memorial Address to her father, most likely.

I don't think Memorial address was meant to mean "speech"..

It seems more like she is addressing the grief face to face... etc. Like "I wish I could've heard that the time we spent together was worth it even if it was a lie.. etc." And memorial could be taken to mean its adjective form.. like in commemoration or w/e. So she's calling forth attention to her memories / commemorating them with the song.. or something.

I dunno, address is a lame word with a jillion meanings and Ayu is a confusing woman. lol.

i think it means

addressing a memorial

meaning

this is something important

i kinda feel like thats why it was a mini album
because she couldnt wait to make it a full album
had to release then, when the incident happened

THATS MY OPINION :D

the words "memorial address" together have a meaning..
I was taught that~~ o.o;;
The president of usa gives memorial address every sept. 11,
hitler gave a memorial address too in 1941~ (I am world history major~ LOL)
And I googled, and they give memorial addresses for almost everything.

I was taught it means you are giving an address to the people on an anniversery of some tragic or haunt event.
Or, you address the people after something bad happened..
Or, you are giving a speech in memory of someone, to speak with their presence.
So I'm pretty sure Memorial Address here refers to her speaking about the memory of those people who left her, etc.~

lol i always thought its the address in everyone's profile in the school's year book @_@

YEah, I was a little confused by the thread becuase it's an actualy expression you can look it up in a dictionary. ::rolleyes SO it's not like LOVEppears no it's not.. LOL Aren't there actual native english speakers on this board anyways?

I think that the album represents her memories,and the adress could be her house,the incident with her dad?

No, address has like 3 meanings. Without looking at the dictionary, it's the following:
a) a designation given to a location (home, work, school, etc), a noun
b) a speech given to an audience, a noun
c) to acknowledge someone/something, a verb

A memorial address is probably also known as a "farewell address", and is used a lot.. and is probably what Ayu was trying to get across. But it's possible that she was also trying to convey C as well. That possibility is like next to nil, but whatever. lol.

(Avoid thinking that she is talking about a location... the song does not even hint at that at all.)

I like your explanation the most as I was taught a similar thing (I'm British and American studies BA LOL). At first I was not really sure what the song was about but later as I found out that her dad died at that time, all became clear to me. It's pretty simple - a memorial "speech" to commemorate the person that left her...~sayonara ne~

i always saw Memorial address as the place of someone that has passed away. it's connected with a memorial plate if you know what i mean.

so basicly Ayu is remembering someone that passed away...

Likely, as I read the speculation said, her father. Lyrically, it makes sense for it to be about him anyway. And if you take the title into consideration, and the fact that she connected it to teddy bear at AT03-04...

Ayu is an interesting and smart woman ;)

Every time I have heard Memorial, it's always been in reference to someone's death.
As a side note, a Memorial Service is like a funeral... the only difference is you don't have the casket.
So it's saying she's mourning someone's death (by all indications, her father's death). And this song is the Memorial Address or the message given in honor of that person.
I think so many of Ayu's titles are very skillfully named... Even if the title isn't said in the song, she's good at choosing titles that really sum up the essence. :yes

I like the title, it has a deep meaning to me. Like something memorial, something you don't want and can't forget, and you can't go back^^

I thought that Memorial address meant like an address (something written) over a grave x_x.

I think that means a speech you make during a funeral in memory of someone

I think it's a speech that ayu tries to make for her dad...there was a rumour that ayu's dad died during the time when the memorial address album was made

remember one of the booklet pics, with a mirror and ayu wrote a date with lipsticks on the mirror? it was rumoured that that date is the date that ayu's dad died

remember the lyrics which says she was waken up by a phone call of bad news? it probalby means ayu got notified of her dad's death

a very interesting note is that there is no lyrics printed in the booklet for this song, and at the beginning of the song, a male voice said please listen, it's like an introduction of the speech, and the purpose of not having lyrics printed is like a speech at the funeral where you dun get a copy of the speech, and it makes you listen more carefully since u dun have the printed version of the speech

I thought it meant a speech addressing the memory of a deceased person.

Also a very interesting note is I don't think the lyrics to Memorial address have ever been truly published.