Now it falls all around me
Did I think I could run away?
Now it's coming to find me
This world that I deserve
Now it burns across this shadow
I lift my eyes to fire
It was sudden. The way reality came crashing into my head, back into my life. Just when I had finally kicked the last of it out of my life and hidden away from it all; but found me just as quickly. And this time I was alone. Did I really think I could leave this life behind? It found me because it's what some revolting scientist had planned out for me. They gave me wings and doomed me with this bitter and soon to be short lived life.
Under a falling sky
Hopeless, there's nowhere to hide
The terror is real this time
Under a falling sky
I'm under, I'm under
A falling sky
The weight of the rain pushed me down from the sky. My back ached from flying for hours on end. I had to keep going, I couldn't stop. They were chasing me. Why did I leave everyone behind? Did I really believe that I would be better off without them, or that they'd be better off without me? I wasn't a leader, I was a coward. I stepped down from my duties of keeping everyone safe, I couldn't take the pressure anymore.
There you are, so far away
Did you think I was fighting you?
I only wanted to carry you
So far away from here
The nightmare bleeds
The poison seeps
I hear you call
You're screaming, screaming
I wanted to take them away with me. I wanted them to hide with me. But, unlike me, they understood their destiny, they were more prepared than myself. I was meant to be the strongest, the best of all of them. I was THE Maximum Ride. I chose my name, so should that mean that I was strong enough to choose my life? To diverge from the path that someone else set out for me? A story that gave away the ending, an ending which I was always meant to lose?
Under a falling sky
Hopeless, there's nowhere to hide
The terror is real this time
Under a falling sky
I'm under, I'm under
A falling sky
My fate it rains, it rains like cinders
The cadent drums, the war it comes
Growing thunder, terror, wonder
Falling, falling
It's falling, falling
I had nowhere else to hide. I had nowhere else to run to. It was just me under the falling sky. I could taste the saltiness on my lips, knowing that they were the tears that I would later refuse to admit had fallen from my eyes. They told me to save the world. They told me I could. Was it all a test? A lie? Some sort of fantasy that I made up in my mind. Was this all this was now? Me running from my life, a race until I finally give up and die? I fought all my life, and I don't want to do this forever. This was my decision I had to make, should this be the end, of everything? No one would miss me. No one would care that the once Invincible Maximum Ride would be gone from the world. The girl who gave everything for her family, who followed a voice to try and save the world.
Under a falling sky
The terror is real this time
It's over now, it's over
NOW!
The terror is real!
I'm under, I'm under
A falling sky
A heavy weight slammed into my back. My heart leapt up in my throat. I couldn't breathe. My wings folded up without me wanting them to. Fear struck through me and coursed through my veins. I didn't want to go out like this. Falling backwards, I opened my eyes and met the own burning ones of my makers. My creators. My mother's dark eyes, so much like my own. My father's blue ones, bright like the sky when it wasn't crying. Beyond them I saw the grinning face of the eraser from my past. And through him I saw my family, the ones I grew up with, fought with and almost died with multiple times. Can I leave this behind? A life so broken, but filled with so many memories that I don't think I can let go of. An experience that, though horrible at times, was worth it alongside my friends and family. So many things. I wasn't ready to let this go.
Under a falling sky
I'm falling, I'm falling
The terror is real this time
I'm falling, I'm falling
Under a falling sky
I'm falling, I'm falling
I'm under...
My wings were stiff, unyielding. I couldn't move them. I couldn't breathe. I let my legs and arms out to try and slow down my fall. It couldn't end like this. I wouldn't end like this. The rain fell beside me and it felt like the sky itself had opened up and cried its tears for me, knowing that this would be my end. I sobbed into the open air. There was no one around. No one was chasing me. I was running from myself, escaping from the person I was but never wanted to be. I can never go back to being her. I'm too broken. My soul is shattered. My strength is merely physical. I am torn beyond repair. I ran to try and find myself, but there was nothing to find. There is no other me than the shell that the real Max always hid behind. And now that shell is broken, and here I am falling towards my death.
Perhaps I was never strong enough for this life. That I only believed I would be and my family was the only support that could keep me going through this horrible life. I'm falling, and maybe… maybe this is the way it's meant to be.
My name is Max, and this is the end of my ride.
