Disclaimer/Author's Note: Vincent and all the FF7 characters & world are owned and copyrighted to Squaresoft. "Drive Away" is by ALL and is written by Chad Price.
This is my little songfic about Vincent Valentine, lyrics are from ALL's "Drive Away". It's written in first person, because I like to write in first-person, also I think I'm pretty good in that. It's rather short. And I didn't mean to make it VincentXAeris, so if it bothers you.. Sorry, it just turned out like this. Oh yeah, I'm not using every single lyric from the song, because some of the lyrics were too modern to fit Vinny. And it happens after the happenings of the game. Okay? So enjoy and review.

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"Tears fall down..."

I was alone. Nothing more to sin, nothing more to show, still nothing to hide. Heroship didn't complete me. Partnership didn't make me a better man. Friends were still unknown.

Despair was the only thing I didn't wish for, but it seemed to come around like it was my family. Joy and grace, which I would never know, shone on the man's face. The man, who gave his everything. He tells me I was of great help. And I don't believe him.

"...and wash the dirt away"

How could I purify myself?
Girl, who was no longer here, told me to forgive myself. My sins weren't worth of such self-loathe, she pointed and passed her message on to her spirit. And then she died. Death, like it was the greatest gift, the purest people recieve it.

"The sky opens up to cry awhile. Too many tortured memories to pass the time."

I lacked of dreams, that gleamed in the eyes of the man who thought he had once lost his everything. I lacked of the intellect, which stopped the young one to think about his elders and understand them. I lacked of the ambition, that drove the young girl out into the world to practise the art of thievery, for her people, without giving the whole idea a second thought. I looked at my incomplete self and didn't manage to think of the good times.

"The sun never shows its face.."

Deep eyes stared into mine. She watches me as if she would want to see through me. She wonders and then turns around. And I know what she's thinking about. My past. Dark and vague as the sky was before. You never know what might fall down. You don't look up. You don't even wish to know..

"..the summer always seems to be so far away, the sun never shows its face"

Values and what did I ever know? I know nothing about myself, it's as if I had forgotten all, but yet I remember the pain. And the things that were never given back. And they say: "Let go."

"Hearts seldom break, but always bend.."

The dark man gave a promise and we all knew he was going to keep it. I wished to give my promise and let go. And through the glasses, that light up any dark way, it didn't seem to be difficult. Love to me meant unending pain.

"...and you know it'll hurt until the end."

Girl from the last of her race, she gave the man, who shone heroism, the hope he needed to complete his mission. She gave my pity soul something unique, that could never be taken from me. Like a gem, it polished my past. I recontained the mental strength I once owned. The young one glared at me with his one eye. My eyes were black..

"Tonight the headlights shine and prove; there's still time, for everything to change."

...so he couldn't see they were gleaming from joy.