'Cause I never really wrote.
I never thought I'd say
What always chokes my throat.
But now I've come to say
What I should have said before;
Now I can admit
That I should have loved you more.
I would always say,
"You can't contest;
You can't do it, kid,
'Cause I'm the best!"
I was the star;
I had it all.
Yet I should have known:
Pride comes before a fall.
Training for a match,
Leaving behind my kin.
I left without a trace,
Swallowed up by Sin.
They trusted me,
They believed.
They imprisoned me,
But they set me free.
I was his guardian,
And I was his friend.
I even stuck with him
Until the very end.
He had a daughter
As I had a son.
In this we were the same:
We had only one.
One to love dearly
And one to discipline,
One to bring up
And one to defeat Sin.
He left her behind
With pain in his heart,
For he would never return,
He would forever depart.
I could not understand
Why he seemed so sad,
Unless it was because
Yuna would never be glad.
Auron taught me how to fight,
He taught me how to win.
He taught me how to battle,
How to fight and become Sin.
He didn't get me at first,
He didn't understand.
But he was there to help me,
Ready with a strong hand.
Yet as we journeyed on,
As I began to see,
We began to grow close.
He was a brother to me.
He had no family ties,
No connections on this earth;
He had been a wanderer
From the day of his birth.
His loneliness affected me,
Though I couldn't understand
How he could keep on living
And continue to be a man.
Though I had these friends
(And many worries too),
I never forgot;
Every minute I missed you.
I told them about you,
And for once I was proud
That I could talk to someone
Other than a crowd.
I talked of your mother;
How beautiful, how kind
To love an idiot like me,
And never seemed to mind
How I'd go off and get drunk
In a frenzy of victory.
I'd get intoxicated
Over the fame of me.
And I told them about you,
How you always seemed to cry.
How I wished I could get a chance
To tell you goodbye.
My throat would constrict
If I said these words to you.
I wouldn't know what to say,
I wouldn't know what to do.
So I'm writing this down,
In case you never hear
How much you mean to me,
How precious, how dear.
Auron might tell you
What I started to begin
In the Memory Sphere,
But in case not, listen in.
I don't know how to go on,
I don't know how to continue.
I simply know that my love
Resides deep within you.
I'm no good at these things,
Like I've said before.
But I just wanted to say
I'm not the best anymore.
