M - A COMPLETE リマスタリングver.
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The lyrics reflect on love as something powerful but uncertain. In the city, people hurry past one another, while two people meet and their relationship begins intensely. Yet love does not guarantee permanence: another couple quietly separates. The speaker seems to hold both possibilities together, feeling loneliness and pain while also finding comfort and healing in a loved person. The final wish is that this might be the speaker’s last love.
The image of a curtain opening and closing presents a relationship like a performance: its beginning can feel dramatic, while its ending may be quiet. Winter arriving nearby suggests change approaching almost unnoticed. The repeated address to “Maria” sounds like a prayer or appeal, though the lyrics do not explain who Maria is. The contrast between deep wounds and being healed suggests that love can both hurt and offer relief.
The song does not present love as simple happiness. It can fill an emotional emptiness, but it can also bring isolation and lasting pain. The speaker’s faith is therefore hopeful but not certain: they want to believe and pray, rather than claim to know what will happen. The closing thought—that beginnings may arrive without a reason, while endings always have one—may mean that love can start unexpectedly, whereas separation eventually becomes understandable, even if it remains painful.