Aerith

Last thing I remember is plottin our escape

I was runnin with a gang, wreakin havoc state to state

Called AVALANCHE, we were some revolutionaries

Usin every trick in the book, to bring the truth

And nearly got killed on my last mission up in Midgar

Set off an explosion, ran but didn't get far

So I'm guessin the reactor blew

The blast knocked me unconscious and deattached our crew

I awakened on a flower bed up in the slums

On the floor of a church, all covered in grunge

Thankful to be alive, in need of a shower and not a medic

I get up sore and lightheaded

It was there that I met her, and her name was Aerith

Body wasn't the greatest, skin wasn't the fairest

Not someone I'd normally be interested in gettin with

But somethin 'bout her aura just told me she was different

So I, dusted myself off and said hello

Apologized for the inconvenience and tried to go

But one thing about Aerith, she was a straight shooter

Didn't wait to see if she had somethin to say to ya

So immediately pleasantries were cancelled

When she asked who would pay for the flowers that I trampled

I laughed, and said that I would replace them

Just did a job that I'm waitin to get paid from

See I'm a soldier, fightin for freedom

Providin my services to anyone who need 'em

So she came with a plan, suggested I protect her

Cause there's some bad folks out there tryin to get her

And before I could ask why, troopers just passed by

Kicked in the church door, wood and glass fly

Should I help her? My conscience said you gotta dog

So I went from a soldier to a bodyguard

So in our travels in the ensuing chapters

Everywhere we went, somebody was tryin to capture her

So why disaster? What was the deal? Yo what's the appeal?

As usual she's nothin but real

She was the, last descendant of an ancient race

Who may or may not hold the connection to a sacred place

Called The Promised Land, so this caused a lot of problems man

Everybody wanted it, so they all devised a plan

And if that wasn't enough, here comes Sephiroth

The meanest, baddest, biggest boss of 'em all

She'd go to the church and pray for the solution

But Sephiroth appears, showin no fear

And with one sword stroke, Aerith was killed

I, wish I was like her and said what I feel

I don't know what it was but there was somethin 'bout her aura

Cause I haven't felt it since her and never felt it before her