music: Kalm/ lyrics: Kaya

I hear the faint sound of rain from far away

Drowsy warm with light fever
On a sweet and lazy afternoon

The hydrangea suddenly floats behind my eyes
As a wet wind caresses my cheek and passes by

The vow left behind in that pale blue room
Suddenly pushes to my empty chest and turns round

tooku kasuka ni kikoeru amaoto

karui binetsu
amaku kedarui gogo

shikai no saki de fui ni yureru ajisai
nureta kaze ga hoho ni furete sugiru

aoi heya ni okisari no chikai
karappo na mune no naka karakara to mawaru

Our [promise] proved too weak
Our [Eternity] consigned so quietly

I drown in my frail memories that seem just like
the light rain soaking the wettened window pane
In the pale, frozen silence

And cut off my little finger that bound us tight
It was my flooding weakness that crushed you

Your vestage an overlapping fragrance of indigo blue
The hydrangeas begin to blur and run in the rain

mado o nurasu kono kirisame no you ni
zeijaku na omoide ni oborete yuku
aoku kooru seijaku

kitsuku tsunaide ita koyobi o kiriotoshite
afureru atashi no yowasa ga anata o oshitsubushita

omokage ni kasanari kaoru aiiro
ajisai ga awaku ame ni nijinde yuku

Just like they were on that very same day
Hydrangeas like they are on fire

Shivering in the rain
Plucked from the stem
I'll continue to sing forever

So please continue to laugh for me
And promise you'll never forgive what I've done

ano hi to onaji you ni moeru you na ajisai

ame ni fue
oru you ni
zutto utaitsuzukeru wa

dakara douka waratte ite
kesshite atashi o yurusanaide

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.