They took her cookies, she took their lives.

Season 2 music: *dark as hell* Season 2 first episode: FOOOOOOOOOOD FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

Ruby has been bottling up her emotions and smiling through her pain from the start. She was the only member of team RWBY who never talked about her past. In volume 4 and 5, everyone worked through the trauma they experienced and learned about themselves. Everyone except Ruby. Ruby smiled through it all. She doesn't show her pain to others. The Red Like Roses manga shows a scene where a teenage Ruby breaks down in front of her mother's grave, which suggests she never got over her mother's death. She wants to be strong like the heroes in the books, so she smiles through it all. When Ruby broke down near the end of volume 7, I think it signified an important character arc for Ruby that will happen soon. Ruby is a lot more complex than she appears on the surface...that sad smile kills me every time.

Weird as it may sound, I've come to think of this song not only representing Ruby, but also Torchwick. Guess something in the lyrics just embodies Roman's cynical jaded view of the world, whereas Ruby struggles to hold onto her optimism and faith in humanity, something Roman likely gave up on ages ago. Ideological opposites as it were and Roman is the very thing Ruby could become if she lets the world crush her spirit like it did his . . . Or maybe I'm just overthinking it like I often tend to do. lol.

Sometimes I listen to these songs and wonder how the hell anyone thought this show was gonna be cheerful happy go lucky stuff from start to finish. It's great!

My brain always hears the beginning as "THE BUS JUST FINE"

"Chaos is the prize?" how do these songs tell us stuff without us realizing for years?

4 years later and this still goes crazy

I miss my rwby phase circa 2018. I became uninterested like many others did in the series, but this is still my favorite song. I even have my old shirt of Ruby and friends for memories sake. I wonder if it's weird to feel nostalgia for something that only took place five years ago though. (EDIT) 03/07/24: RIP Rooster Teeth. I just got the news. At every end no matter how grim, there's a new beginning ❤

This song perfectly describes roosterteeth being sold and the state of rwby

6 volumes later and this is still one of my all time favourite RWBY songs. :)

Rwby has one of the best soundtrack of any show.

(v9 spoilers ahead) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * sigh * this makes more and more sense as Volume 9 progresses. Ruby couldn't stop Salem from destroying Atlas, couldn't save Penny, back then she saw Pyrrha die in front of her eyes. She still had no time to process her grief for Penny and yet she's still expected to smile and uplift everyone. I think that unless Little manages to be a voice of conscience for her, Ruby is going to go down a really dark path.

The drumming is God tier

This song hits different now for some reason

my favorite thing about this song is that it's when we were formally introduced to Neo

God I remember these songs. Just opened a can of nostalgia.

This is a definite life lesson regarding trust and ambition mix-in.....also can lead to war.

If you mess with Ruby and her friends and this starts playing... *Run.*

when you look at how people treat each other now this song oddly just fits

2:41 This moment is so fire 🔥

That was awesome editing at the end there

This song, much like Collective Consciousness, is becoming more relevant in the world we live in.

Fits 2020 perfectly imo

The only reason I still watch RWBY is the fire music that drops every volume

Hello for those who commented 4 years ago! 2020 here!

This song is lowkey about volume 8

well. this feels relevant right now. encapsulates my thoughts of the future anyway.

this anime has some really cool soundtracks, maybe one day I'll watch it

Sadly a relevant song in such uncertain times...

This song was the theme of my life for about two years after it first came out. Still is

this song goes so hard

How curious.. they were advertising us... and we aint noticed about the bad things were comming.

I dislike how much this relates to 2020 edit: I hate how much this relates to 2022

This song is very appropriate to 2020, Sometimes I wish fiction stayed just that. Fiction.

Am I the only one bothered by the lip-smacking sound at 1:22? Ever since I noticed it I can't unhear it

I miss the old RWBY, and I wish even more the showrunner was still with us.

Sin duda mi canción favorita de la temporada 2.

At "a life of war" you can hear squelching sounds

Well this song definitely feels appropriate after today’s news with Roosterteeth

Me encanta enserio esta canción

I swear, you can hate on RWBY as much as you like. Wether it be the characters, the plot, the writing, whatever. But the day someone says RWBY has bad music? That's when I get the knuckle dusters out.

The fact that Zwei proofread this is Gold

I see everyone talking about the show this is from but this slaps bro

I wish one day I can make my own show with my own soundtrack...

Dude i fucking love the part where its just the other voice saying "Saayyy goooodbyeeeee" sounds so fucking melodic dude

They should've saved this song for when Ruby finally snaps and the bad guys realize they bit off more than they could chew with her

Reading the news to this hits hard

The first time I heard this music started playing with Yang stopping a punch from Roman's Atlesian Paladin...WAS SO BADASS!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The show really gave her moment to "shine", if you get what I mean. ;)

0:44 dayum

what genre of music is this? i absolutely love it

This song goes so hard fr!

1:26 - 1:32 I think this song may be referencing "Trust Love"

The drums go hard!!!

GIVE US THE RUBY CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT WE DESERVEE

Am I the only one who sees this song as being from the pre-curse salem perspective?

Every single line from this song feels so relatable now... It is like a description of what is happening in our shitty world at the moment.

Lmao song of 2020 and 2021

0:38 I just realized I've been hearing the wrong lyrics the whole time

very cool

This song feels like this is for Roman Torchwick from Volume 1-3

season 2 complete fluff soundtrack is dark as hell season 3 dark as hell and the soundtrack is full of upbeat romantic songs

Has anyone noticed that most of Ruby's songs are all pretty dark. Red Like Roses, Die. Anyone else sense some foreshadowing for a new character development arch?

When you absolutely, positively need to eradicate a 15 foot tall battle mech in one punch.

god i love that part where the music cuts out, chills every time. Casey's voice is absolutely amazing

I don't know why, but at the line "we'l live our lives, watching our backs, not knowing who to trust or fear..." I get chills...... Awesome.

RWBY must be the show with the best soundtrack i've seen. Or better phrased: the one with the best songs to listen alone (some shows have an amazing soundtrack that goes with the moment, but not alone)

So what's everyone else's favorite line from this song? Mine's; "Feel it everywhere and you see it growing Enemies arise and the hate is following"

*six years later* *scrolls down recommendation box* Oh look, it's this song... I kinda remember... *clicks it* *sobs* OH JESUS

Ruby looks unhappy. Someone ate all the cookies again, didn't they?

Yang tried to beat Adam but things got out of *hand*

People:"This Is Such a Dark Song!" Divide:"Hold My Beer"

volume 3 in a nutshell

3:01 Me whenever i see an insect in my house

Flynt, you are totally good at making these lyric videos! Perfect artwork and fonts ^^

the fact that this song is so relatable to reality, more so than any other on the soundtrack i think, is what makes it so chilling

this should have been the theme song for volume 3 as it symbolizes a lot of the same factors in a less... poetic form.

i find it kinda intresting how the characters thoughts are more put through in the their songs lyrics , for example rubys happy go lucky nature and innocence but deep down shes really broken and understands a lot more then people give her credit for , even so she going anyway trying not to show the cracks , i find this really really interesting from a character perspective :'3 anyone else agree?

these songs are deep.

I dont mind the adds I dont mind the buffer But when the adds buffer, I suffer

I'm pretty sure this song is about Salem. '' *not every open wound is simply healed by time, but revenge is always sweet and chaos is the prize* '' I'm pretty sure this is about Ozmas death and her hatred towards the gods '' *shattering the moon and bloodying the sky* '' the god of darkness killed all of humanity then he shattered the moon '' *we'll live out lives watching our backs, not knowing who to trust or fear* '' both her and Ozma are trying to kill each other '' *the hate just swallows all the love* '' Salem simply hating Ozma, the man she used to love. '' *DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE* '' - Salem wanting Ozma to die over and over Honestly, it sounds like a combination of Good Salem and bad Salem warning all of mankind. The good Salem is remembering her happy youth with Ozma and the bad Salem is angry and making mankind divide through wars and destruction.

Artist credit in the description! :)

This song is most likely the most catchiest songs in the vol. 2 soundtrack. Keep up the good work dude!

i know this theory may sound kind of crazy but after hearing the songs of casey lee and williams. ive come to notice that most, if not all songs that seem to be directed at ruby rose seem to talk about revenge and hatred and keeping your feelings in. What Im getting at is that maybe Ruby will have a drastic change over the next volumes That's just what I'm saying. I mean I am basing it off their music so it may not be cannon but its a possibility that i can see happening.

If you look at the lyrics there are many hints. I mean that the moon is important is pretty obvious at this point. ^^

By far the edgiest song in my playlist

Wow someone must have stolen Ruby's cookies XD

That pause at 2:40 gets me everytime...

no lie when i watched this show i was like"yass"but when i hured the music i was like"YASSS!".so thank you for the lyrics

I thought that this song was really dark for a moment that was basically a victory for team RWBY, but then I realized just how profoundly Atlas screwed up to get them to the situation that the team had to clean up. Terrorists literally had access to top-secret, state-of-the-art Atlesian military tech almost a year BEFORE Atlas had it themselves. Seriously, how did they even manage to screw up that badly?

raise your hand if you listen to this almost every day

Nice work, I really like that you make videos like this

Man, volume 6 is great for going back and listening to earlier stuff like this

Most of the dark edgy songs from RWBY somehow relates to the reality that we're live in. It's kinda scary

Spoiliers would like to point out the subtle nod to "Die" In Neos comeback music which is dubbed "One thing" which I always felt like that was Neos theme "Kill for kill eye for eye blood for blood it's time to die" now I'm about to blow your minds what's the name of the episode that Neo is featured in? "The coming storm" One of the lines from "Die" is "the futures looking blek and the storm is set to Rise" cool right, Also another connection is "but revenge is always sweet and chaos is the prize" and in her new theme "One thing" it says "Retribution taste so sweet" my theory is "Die" is Neos theme and Romans theme if you listen to "Die" then the score from her fight "One thing" it kinda fits in.

1:15 when you hit puberty

The guitar shredding is off the scales on that solo!

NO. IT IS NOT TIME TO DIE. IT IS TIME TO LIVE AND EVERYTHING WILL BE FUCKING GREAT FOREVER YAY HAPPY FUN TIMES

Pattern recognized: Whenever the background song is about one character's desire to kill another, no actual killing occurs.