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Old 15th January 2014, 10:22 PM
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Lyrically "Tell me why" sounds like a sequel to (miss)understood, looking at it from a big picture perspective.

In any case, it seems she's singing to someone with a publicly visible persona with lines like

その声で聴かせて欲しい
画面からじゃ伝わらない

I want you to let me hear, in your voice,
the things that can't be conveyed from a (TV) screen


Plus if you know her history of taking on everything herself professionally, and her reason why (because then if anything went wrong, she'd be the one responsible), alot of the lyrics about taking on too much personal responsibility REALLY seem to apply to her. So my theory is that she's singing to herself, or singing from the point of view of a lover or best friend talking to her.

I could absolutely be wrong though - she quotes the addressee as calling themselves "ore" so she's either talking to a guy, or a very tomboyish/casual type of girl, and ayu DOES typically refer to herself as "atashi" when she's getting especially personal. So she COULD be singing to someone she's friends with or has dated who's also famous, and who she relates to a great deal.

Or hey, could be both. Lyrics & poetry are fun like that. hehe