"Quiet"[1] is a song that plays during the RWBY Volume 9 episode "A Tale Involving a Tree". It plays during the Genial Gems reveal and the episode credits. It was incorporated on the RWBY: Volume 9 Soundtrack.
The song describes Jaune Arc's years of isolation in the Ever After.[2]
Lyrics[]
No more
Sudden movements
Please
So tired,
I'm sleepless
And haunted by you
Falling
Forever
Was I always just
A man out of time
So this
Is what life is
No trouble now
Just quiet
Never knew what patience was
Till it's face stared me down
Couldn't bear to witness
My own fate
My conviction
The weight of it all
The failures of me
And who I couldn't be
Through the hands of time
(I was slipping
Always slipping away)
All I felt that I could do
Was wait
So this
Is what life is
No trouble now
Just quiet
All this
Is a miracle
What more can you ask for?[3]
Trivia[]
- The song was described by Casey Lee Williams as "existential lofi city" prior to the episode's release.