The Fighter (massive ZackxAerith feels)

Let me just embed the song real quick...



But seriously this song gives me so many ZackxAerith feels, especially for my fic sldkfj just... gonna do a song breakdown yeah?
It won't be much the song speaks for itself really

The Fighter - the Fray

This is going to be a bit different, because, again, the song speaks for itself.

Keep in mind:

the Lover = Aerith

the Fighter = Zack

The lover held her love
She begged him not to go
The fighter wrapped his gloves
The fighter said "I know, I know, I know
Just this one last time
I swear you'll still be mine"
But he can't promise much
He goes for one last touch
One last touch

~okay so this is... well, it's Zack leaving Aerith for... I don't know another quick trip 'round the worlds or something. One more round of fighting dangerous monsters. Just one more time. (It's more metaphorical than it is literal but that's most of this song). One more time, then he'll come back, and maybe he'll stay. At least, he'll stay for a while (can you imagine Zack sitting still c'mon he's about as bad as Riku). But he promises he'll come back, and they'll see each other again, and then he leaves

Maybe we were meant to be lonely, lonely
Maybe we were meant to be on our own
Loneliness has always been with me, with me
But maybe we don't have to be all alone

~This is Aerith. Just. Reflecting on it after all that's happened and I guess that's what this song is as a whole. Idk just thinking 'bout that right now. It's her... retelling her story. As someone else's. But it's not and it's her story and it hurts so much. *cries* Sorry. But yeah you get what I'm going for I'll move on.

The fighter goes inside
The doubt is creeping in
He swings with all his might
At all that might have been
And she's in love with him
But lovers don't always win
He never even saw the swing
She calls out his name, calls his name

~again more metaphorical than it is literal, but literal songs are usually crap anyway so. This is Zack starting his final battle. (I always imagine him entering some creepy haunted/deserted mansion with this line like that one place in Crisis Core. Where is it? Starts with an M... Modeoheim. Anyway yeah that's what I think of for some reason *shrugs*) This bit would actually make a good AMV/movie montage.

But this is him, and he's fighting, and he gets distracted and he doesn't see the fatal blow coming and he falls and she knows and she screams and runs to him not really but that's the way the song makes it feel okay?


Maybe we were meant to be lonely, lonely
Maybe we were meant to be on our own
Loneliness has always been with me, with me
But maybe we don't have to be all alone

~And here she is repeating it again. Because she's really been lonely after he died and it's really been eating away at her and sometimes she just can't handle it but maybe, just maybe, it doesn't have to be that way


What breaks your bones
Is not the load you're carrying
What breaks you down
Is all in how you carry

~She knows. She knows this so much because she's been through it. What really hurts isn't the physical pain. It never is the physical pain. It's the emotional pain that runs so deep sometimes and you really can't put up with it so you ignore it and that only makes matters worse. And this is exactly why she and Riku understand eachother *cough*

~And so we resume the story...

And this is the part where I'm in tears because:

The lover held her love
She begged him not to go
She unwrapped his gloves
The lover said "I know, I know, I know"
Kissed his trembling lips
She touched his fingertips
But somehow they both know
He's not coming home, coming home

~Wellthingsdon'thappenquitelikethatbutshutupit'ssobeautifulsobs
I just. I don't have words. It speaks for itself. She finds him and he's dying and she can't save him and asdlkj I can't *ugly sobs*

Loneliness has always been with me, with me
Maybe we were meant to be on our own
But I got to try or it will destroy me
Cause maybe we don't have to be all alone

~And this last bit is her reaching out again because, really, there is no reason to be so alone. Yup yup. *is still crying too hard to give you something proper I'm sorry this song*