[walking proud]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

One thing:

When did you become strong?
Since when have you felt weakness?
How long must you wait
for the day you understand to come?"

I think the last two lines should be "how long must I wait", not "you", since after asking her mom in the first two lines how long it took HER to grow up, she's putting that against herself, and then asking how long it'll take herself. That line has no "you" or "I" in it so it's fuzzy but i think that's what ayu probably meant.

And judging from the line in the booklet "your small, weak-looking back from behind is what I remember" (that's rough, i don't remember what it was specifically, but this is a reference to her watching her dad leave and thinking he looked weak and cowardly), I think this whole song is her talking to her mom in reaction to her dad leaving. Ayu and her mom are on their own after that event, and it occurred to ayu that she'd have to grow up faster than she thought she would, and try to help her mom. She didn't feel abandoned so much as shoved into the world of adults prematurely. That's why she didn't cry, not because she was "strong".

Eh.. you probably know better than I do.. I was just going purely from the lyrics, not from her past or anything.. *sweat*