#guide my way

[vaelerys-targaryen]

Yup, I put them on their own special playlist 🥀🥀🥀

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[chatterkat]

Saw you in a dream

Are you who you seem?

Was it always in the cards for me to be aimless?

No direction

Nothing pulling me down from the sky

It seems like I always get too high

Ruby in a bit of shock from the vision she got from her mother, questions who she really was. She lied, she wasn’t perfect. Ruby’s been idealizing her mother her whole life , and been trying to be just like her, but Ruby has also struggled with what that means for a long time as well. She thought she needed to be like her mom, but how she doesn’t know what to think.

Oh, the air is cold

I don't know how to breathe

I'm begging, can you

Guide my way out

Of this place?

Ruby wants answers, but she isn’t going to get them from the person she most wants them from.

Red like roses fills my dreams

Calling back to the previous red like roses, we know that this refers to Ruby’s nightmares of her mother’s bloody demise. However it’s also again just representing the nightmare that is Ruby’s struggle with her own identity.

Open wide

You were born to hypnotize them all

They said their prayers

(Can you, can you)

Can you hear me up there?

Now this is interesting! It sounds like a response from Summer. Much like how she responses in Red like Roses II. In that song it’s unclear whether it’s a Summer from elsewhere feeling those regrets (I think there is surely a good chance she had become like the hound) or if it was an imagined response by Ruby. It was almost ghostly, like the dead trying to answer the living but unable to actually communicate with each other.

It’s possible it is Ruby still in this lyric since the can you hear me up there part, might make sense from Ruby having fallen down though the world talking back up towards Remnant. However the other lyrics in this section don’t make sense as much sense then. I think it could easily be Summer again speaking from wherever she is dead or alive? Perhaps she is part of the tree and that is what she means by up there.

Open wide might be a reference to Sky is Falling(as it may be a song for the hound) as the opposite of what the song there says which is to “close your eyes my friend” (and the hound is a SEW so…)

Anyway the usage of the word hypnotize is interesting. It’s not just their silver eyes that hypnotize, it’s their whole self. They may hypnotize their enemies(“they said their prayers”), but also If it’s indeed Summer talking about Ruby, then she has certainly hypnotized the world with her message given what we see in Vacuo. Ruby has that spark that charisma that gets people to follow her. It works too if it were a Ruby to Summer lyric in the sense it could represent Ruby’s idealization of Summer, but again it makes more sense IMO to be from Summer to Ruby.

Alternatively it’s Ruby talking about herself trying to hype herself up. She could be saying “can you hear me up there” as a threat to the cat or to Salem, that’s she’s gonna get them, but it seems too early in the song for that confident conclusion about herself

What survives

After all the dust is gone?

Were you there 'til the end?

(The end)

Were you at least called a friend?

These seem to directly call back to the volume 7 song Until the End which seems to be about Ruby(either from her POV or Summer’s) declaring she would be there until the end. It seems to refer to Ruby giving up briefly this volume with the tea. Would she be called a friend by others after giving up?

Or it could be Ruby questioning if her mom was there until the end, if she was a good person a friend in the end?

Otherside,

Did you mean to make me half or whole?

Will I ever be

(complete?)

When will I become all of me?

This is obviously back to Ruby’s perspective, as she questions whether she can ever truly be herself or always in her mother’s shadow. Ruby questions “otherside” and I’m unclear if that mean the otherside where her mother is or if otherside refers to the Ever After. Where the Ever After has both broken her and pushed her to become something new.

Guide my way out

Of this place

I can't define

Would it even be enough

To change my mind?

Your memory everlasting

At war with my foolish pride

What is left?

I know it's you and I

When I look inside

I'll be who you were

And I'll be even more

Ruby looks into herself and now realizes her idolization of her mother doesn’t gel with reality and her “foolish pride” of trying to live up to a standard that more illusion than reality. Interestingly she realizes she still carries this will or memory of her mother, but she no longer wants to be just like her, but rather both her and something greater…herself. She chooses herself.

A moment of quiet is all it takes

To reclaim a life and a promise made

I am the reflection of who prevails

I'm what inspired the fairytale

The emblem symbolizes the promise made, which Ruby never said what it was when she traded it away, but I have the feeling she thought it was a promise to come back, but in reality it was “I love you, just the way you are” Ruby reclaims the promise, hearing that echoed again from her mom is what let her finally be able to to choose herself. So Ruby also reclaims the emblem when she returns from the tree. I also think it symbolizes that part where she is who her mom was but more. Summer surrenders the emblem, and Ruby is truly defining it as hers now.

A moment of quiet is all it takes

To reclaim a life and a promise made

I am the reflection of who prevails

I'm what inspired the fairytale

(I'm what inspired the fairytale)

I think what is meant by this like is that Ruby is now being the one that would inspire a fairytale, she is being who she wants to be finally, and defining her own story her own fairytale instead of just living through others(her Moms, Alex’s)

Guide my way out

(I'll be free)

Of this place

(I'll escape it, I will guide my way out)

Guide my way out

Of this place

In the end Ruby will guide herself out, with this new understanding of herself and her mother. Her mother still helped guide her in the end with her promise and her truth that broke Ruby’s image of her, but now Ruby is breaking away from that and doing it her way.

If you got his far thanks for reading my analysis. Let me know what you think! I’ll be doing a rewatch soon if the series and hopefully more song analysis so stay tuned!

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[sunderedrose]

RWBY Volume 9 soundtrack got me like

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby v9 #rwby volume 9 #music #soundtrack #Guide My Way #Is So Good

[etincelleart]

I keep listening to Guide My Way and can't stop thinking about how verse 2 is NND coded. "Can you [...] hear me up there? What survives after all the dust has gone? Were you there till the end? Were you at least called a friend?" Ruby still wanting to reach out to Penny and wondering what has become of her after the bridge was gone and/or transferring to Winter. And omg...Ruby wanting to know about Penny's last moments and how she knew how important it was for Penny to be with people who loved her!!! Ruby needs to ask Winter this in Vol 10...it is necessary!

Casey doesn't just put "friend" in a song about Ruby and it not be about Penny!

Tbh I'm thinking about that too now that someone pointed that out, I didn't catch it at first but you're right ! I didn't read the lyrics yet and just by hearing I probably didn't hear that, but yeah it's really Nuts and Dolts coded in some parts. It's also kinda mixed up with things that could work with Summer so I love the fact that we can interpret it that way.

Of course like Casey already stated a lot of times, the songs of RWBY aren't canon, it can be interpreted as canon but the fact that this is added in the song isn't just coincidence to me too.

Man I really need some NND content in Vacuo or I'll go to the tree AAAH

#rwby #song #guide my way #rlr part 3 #music #lyrics #ruby #ruby rose #penny #penny polendina #nuts and dolts #vacuo #summer #summer rose

[gachagon]

Me listening to Guide My Way with tears in my eyes because its a song about Ruby finally being able to move on her own without her mother and being able to finally let go of the pain that her mothers death left in her and how the song is a perfect ending for Red Like Roses part II because it finally shows that she's secure in her own identity and and and-

#rwby v9 #rwby volume 9 #red like roses part 3 #guide my way #rwby soundtrack #rwby ost #i love rwby sm

[but-a-humble-goon]

I've listened to Guide My Way at least once a day for the last several months. I'm beginning to think I have a problem.

#rwby #guide my way #red like roses part 3 #casey lee williams #martin gonzalez

[last-knight-who-was]

I knew the full version of Guide My Way would be awesome but this section here:

A moment of quiet is all it takes To reclaim a life and a promise made I am the reflection of who prevails I'm what inspired the fairytale

That's so fucking good!

#ruby rose #guide my way #rwby #rwby v9 soundtrack

[violentlyscreaming]

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[scrion7]

nice argument. unfortunately, I'm what inspired the fairy tale

*shreds guitar like it's everyone's feelings after volume 3*

#rwby #rwby ost #guide my way #ruby rose #It's one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard period

[faboover]

Last week, I posted a blog about my journey making videos about RWBY Volume 6. At the end of that post, I explained how I was gonna be challenging myself to write, record, edit, and put out a video discussing a specific scene from RWBY. That scene was the fight between Ruby and The Furious Cat.

I was able to successfully complete my challenge.

The thing about the major topic regarding Shot | Reverse Shot is that it was gonna be a topic for the Thoughts Animation Video for RWBY Volume 7 if I had stayed consistent with putting out my Thoughts Videos on RWBY for Volume 6.

#rwby #blog #video #youtube #crtq #rwby9 #rwby analysis #discussion #Ruby #Ruby Rose #The Curious Cat #The Cat #The Furious Cat #Fight Scene #review #action #Red Like Roses #Guide My Way #Youtube

[greenteaandtattoos]

Is it just me or does the third part of Guide Me Way sound similar to Sacrifice?

The verse "A moment of quiet is all it takes" onward. Timestamp is 3:21

I dunno, I'm getting Sacrifice vibes for a little bit. Maybe a nod to Cinder being Ruby's foil? Or Raven being there when Summer left? Since those are the two biggest theories on who Sacrifice is about

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[vaelerys-targaryen]

I'm what inspired the fairy tale 🥀🥀🥀

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[sandyca5tle]

Idk how well they’ll all go together, but when we get the full song of ‘Guide My Way(Red Like Roses Part 3)’ I’ll be really interested to see if/how people make songs combining RLR Parts 1-3.

#i don't necessarily think it'll work as well #2 doesn't lead into 3 as well as 1 does into 2 #but i want to dream #and some people are really good with that kind of thing so who knows #rwby #red like roses #rwby red like roses #red like roses part 1 #red like roses part 2 #red like roses part 3 #guide my way

[crazysublimenightmare]

#rwby #rwby 9 soundtrack #guide my way #red like roses

[etincelleart]

Okay I finally got to listen to the full version of Guide My Way and I am going feral over the Nuts and Dolts references, I'm still processing my full thoughts on the implications but I will be thinking about "Were you at least called a friend?" for the rest of my life like--

YEAH like someone pointed that out and I'm really curious about this whole thing--

Of course I was on Casey and Martin's Instagram live yesterday about the soundtrack, and as it's tradition in the RWBY sountrack, there's no confirmation of any character POV (unless it's very obvious or specific), and it's not canon/can be interpreted in various ways. So the fact that there's a friend mention here could completely be a reference to Penny, and I LOVE the fact that they maybe thought about it, because it's such a huge deal for Ruby and she's been mourning her and struggling with that this whole volume. Summer and Penny are probably two of the most painful topics for Ruby and I'm really happy we have mentions and references like this ;;;;;

#rwby #songs #guide my way #summer #summer rose #ruby #ruby rose #penny #penny polendina #nuts and dolts #nnd #nutsndolts #omg aaaaaah

[rwbyfan1999]

Ruby meeting her past self again (tribute)

“I am not perfect, I am not my mother, and I am not the hero in the books, I am myself and no one else I am Ruby Rose and I am a huntress!”

I just wanted to make this in honor of Ruby’s growth and triumphant return. This volume has spoke with me the most with the Alice in wonderland theme and Ruby’s growth as a character as someone who’s struggled to find himself in the real world and now I’m at a point where I’m happy with who I am and it brings me so much joy to see Ruby, a character I legitimately look up to as a person, finally become her true self.

I love you Ruby Rose your the best main character in any show ever! Can’t wait to listen to Guide my Way when the full soundtrack drops.

This will likely be my favorite volume for a long time.

Stay awesome forever my girl who’s also a gun.

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