A/N: People aren't going to understand my logic anymore… ah well, blame the insomnia. Don't own it.

Road flounced up, beating Lenalee the Dictator by a hundredfold. This made the Chinese girl less than pleased.

Road cheerfully accepted the song she was given, the title being "Lithium". As if that wasn't good enough, the artist was Evanescence! How can you get any better?

Verse One
Lithium
Don't want to lock me up inside
Lithium
Don't want to forget how it feels without
Lithium
Don't wanna stay in love with my sorrows
Oh…
But God, I wanna let it go…

Verse Two
Come to bed
Don't make me sleep alone
Couldn't hide forever
Unless you let it show
Never wanted it
To be so cold,
Just didn't drink enough to say
You loved me

I can't hold onto me
Wonder what's wrong with me..?

Refrain
Lithium
Don't wanna lock me up inside
Lithium
Don't wanna forget how it feels without
Lithium
Don't wanna stay in love with my sorrows
Ahhh…!

Coda
Don't wanna let it leave me down this time!
Drown my will to fly…
Here, in the darkness,
I know myself.
Can't break free
until I let it go
Let me go!

Verse Two
Darling, I
forgive you after all.
Anything is
Better than to be alone!
And in the end,
I guess I had to fall…
Always find my place among the ashes.

I can't hold onto to me,
Wonder what's wrong with me..?

Refrain
Lithium
Don't wanna lock me up inside
Lithium
Don't wanna forget how it feels without
Lithium
Stay in love with you…
Ahhh…!
I'm gonna let it go…

Lots of clapping. Road pranced back to her seat, keeping her ever-cheery façade up. In her heart, though, she realized how true that song was. How close it was to her heart…

"Are you alright, dearest?" Sheryl whispered as Lenalee kept the show on the road.

She smiled up at him. "Yep!"

A/N: This song is very complex, I'm afraid. Another long author's note.

"Lithium" is about happiness, and being happy with yourself, in your place. It's also about being afraid of loving yourself because you're afraid of being hurt. I believe this fits most of the DGM characters, but especially Road in that she always seems happy in her place and has a loving family, but the things she wants she can never have because she is who is. For instance, the first verse in which she's sad no one can say they love her, truthfully, without being stoned or wasted, is like her fruitless love for Allen and the fact that the family she has of Sheryl, Tyki, and Tricia is very much a façade to help them with relations.

I think the saddest part is in the coda- just the whole thing. She's always been viewed as a dark and cruel character and she can't escape that everyone believes that's who she is. Enough so to the point she believed it and destroyed any wishes for a different life (Drown my will to fly) and was afraid to step outside her safe boundaries (Here, in the darkness, I know myself). I'm not sorry if I'm annoying people who really don't like Road and the Clan of Noah- I like the dark, complex characters, the ones with secrets and are deeper than the surface makes them. The reason I really like Road as a character. (Road: Yay Shii likes me!) (Shii: not the insomnia part of the deal, no.)

Anyhow, please review!