In Loving Memory

by Lakara Valentine

my first songfic. song is In Loving Memory by Alter Bridge.

After listening to this song a few times I realized how much it fits Cloud and Vincent and their dead girlfriends. The song is In Loving Memory by Alter Bridge.

In Loving Memory

Vincent leaned back on his pillows and turned on the radio. He closed his eyes as his favorite rock songs began playing, even singing along with some of them. Hey, he was alone, no one there for him to feel humiliated if he was caught singing. He even took pride in the fact that he could match pitch with some of the deepest voices without trying. There was just something about rock and heavy metal that helped him relax after a long day of getting odd stares on the streets while looking for work. However there were some songs he liked to avoid if he could as they only made him think of Lucrecia, throwing him into a deeper depression than he was already in. A slow, mellow guitar solo started playing and he recognized one of the worst of these, but couldn't bring himself to turn it off as the tears began coursing down his face.

Thanks for all you've done

I've missed you for so long

I can't believe you're gone

You still live in me

I feel you in the wind

You guide me constantly

I never knew what it was to be alone

'Cause you were always there for me

You were always home waiting

But now I come home and I miss your face so

Smiling down on me

I close my eyes to see

And I know

You're a part of me

And it's your song that sets me free

I sing it while

I feel I can't hold on

I sing tonight 'cause it comforts me

Halfway across town, Cloud tuned the radio on his bike to the same station. He was on his way home from a delivery and felt some music might help him unwind. He tapped his thumbs on the handle bars in time with a heavymetal song as he waited for traffic to begin flowing again. The song had just ended and traffic had started moving again when a slower, classic guitar solo began playing. He wasn't sure if he recognized it, so he turned it up so he could hear over the engine. Around the middle of the first verse, he wished he hadn't. He felt tears threaten to spill onto his face as Aerith's face appeared in his mind's eye.

I carry the things that remind me of you

In loving memory of the one who was so true

You were as kind as you could be

And even though you're gone

You still mean the world to me

I never knew what it was to be alone

'Cause you were always there for me

You were always home waiting

But now I come home and it's not the same

It feels empty and alone

I can't believe you're gone

And I know you're a part of me

And it's your song that sets me free

I sing it while I feel I can't hold on

I sing tonight 'cause it comforts me

I'm glad he set you free from sorrow

But I'll still love you more tomorrow

And you'll be here with me still

All you did you did with feeling

And you always found a meaning

And you always will

And you always will

And you always will

And I know

You're a part of me

And it's your song that sets me free

I sing it while I feel I can't hold on

I sing tonight 'cause it comforts me

This is my first songfic, hope you liked it. kinda obscure song, but I felt like it fit. Review if you wish, but please no flames unless you would like me to feed them and give them back. (in which case, bring it on and feel the wrath of Aranas, Queen of the Flame (psst, she likes fire))