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The lyrics state explicitly that this is someone she DIDN'T have a good relationship with, but that she wished she HAD. She wished she'd known more about him, experienced the love she felt she was supposed to receive from him. This ties right into her father leaving when she was a child and the two of them never getting to know each other. During her All Night Nippon radio appearance in late 1998, she said that she thought it might be nice if she got to see him again one day before she died, and if she still felt that way in 2003, then him passing away before she got the chance would have been a HUGE regret for her. The lyrics to M.a. really put that feeling across. There's alot of regret, anger, frustration, and longing in the lyrics as opposed to simply sadness that someone has passed away.
She's also said openly (I believe, although I don't remember where) that "teddy bear" was about the emotions she felt when her father left. Even before this interview was translated, it appeared that "teddy bear" and "Memorial address" went together as a set for Ayu, since she performed them together in concert with no break in between, and it seemed very much as though the emotions felt during "teddy bear" were carried over into "Memorial address" in the performance - it was extremely raw and rather heart-wrenching to watch. It stood to reason that the two songs were probably about the same person.
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