- For the ending theme song from "RWBY: Ice Queendom", see "Awake (IQ)"
"Awake" is the song that plays during the fight between a young Cinder Fall and Rhodes in "Midnight" and is incorporated into Ok Goodnight's "Under the Veil" EP and the RWBY: Volume 8 Soundtrack.
Lyrics[]
Still, of fragile lies in bones
Forever, we alone
Cannot escape this misery
Slow, we step into the light
Inebriate in sights
Unveil the truth that guides us home
Look inside
With darkness my tears collide
Sinking into the shrine of me
I'm ready to be set free
I'm sick as the dying, the air I breathe
I feel alive
My self-portrait suicide
Tonight is no time to die
And now I'm awake
Truth can break your soul in two
Just when you think it's you
The trеachery will breed inside
Embers, sweet and unrеfined
So bright but not so kind
Will start a fire in your mind
Look inside
With darkness my tears collide
Sinking into the shrine of me
I'm ready to be set free
I'm sick as the dying, the air I breathe
I feel alive
My self-portrait suicide
Tonight is no time to die
Now I'm awake
Silence fuels the deadly cries
Ripped apart by knives in lovers' lies
Curse my innocence goodbye
Take my hand then take my life
Look inside
With darkness my tears collide
Sinking into the shrine of me
I'm ready to be set free
I'm sick as the dying, the air I breathe
I feel alive
My self-portrait suicide
Tonight is no time to die
Now I'm awake
Oh, now I'm awake
Yeah
Video[]
Album - Under the Veil[]
Trivia[]
- This is the first song to be featured in RWBY that was not written and composed with the show in mind.
- This is also the first song composed by Casey Lee Williams's band "Ok Goodnight" to be featured in the series and included in the official soundtrack.
- This song is in the key of C# minor.
- The line "take my hand and take my life" is heard in the show at the same moment in which Cinder commits the latter act against Rhodes.