"Awake" is a song written and performed by the rock band Ok Goodnight for their 2020 extended play Under the Veil. It was later used in the season eight episode "Midnight" of the American animated webseries RWBY as a theme for Cinder Fall coming to a realization about herself after killing her abusers and turning on her mentor.
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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
Silence fuels the deadly cries
Ripped apart by knives in lovers' lies
Curse my innocence goodbye
Take my hand then take my life
Other Appearances[]
- The song was featured on the extended play Under the Veil and the soundtrack album RWBY, Vol. 8 (Music from the Rooster Teeth Series).
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Trivia[]
- The song is the first song to be featured in RWBY that was not written and composed with the show in mind.
- Ok Goodnight's lead singer, Casey Lee Williams (who performs the song), lends her vocals to many of the songs in RWBY, was the main composer for the music in the series' ninth season, and provided the singing voice for series protagonist Weiss Schnee.
