RWBY/Analysis

As noted on the main page, RWBY has Arc Words scattered through the lyrics of the many, many songs Jeff Williams has written for the show. As of the end of Volume 7, the following have been noted:

"Bloody evolution"


 * "This Will Be The Day" (vol 1)
 * "All Things Must Die" (vol 5)

"Absolution"
 * "I don't wanna hear your absolution", "This Will Be The Day" (vol 1)
 * "Absolution's nowhere near", "One Thing" (vol 7)

"I/She Burns"


 * "Yellow beauty burns gold", "Red Like Roses" (Red Trailer)
 * All of "I Burn" (vol 1)
 * "I am the golden one who burns just like the sun", "Armed and Ready" (vol 4)
 * "I'm on fire today", "Ignite" (vol 5)
 * "Watch me burn as you go down in flames", "Ignite" (vol 5)
 * "I'll burn like the sun", "Gold (Acoustic)" (vol 5)
 * "I'm on fire", "Big Metal Shoe" (vol 6)

"I'm/She's Cold"


 * "White is cold", "Red Like Roses" (Red Trailer)
 * "The girl's ice cold", "Dream Come True" (vol 2)
 * "I'm cold", "Cold" (vol 3)
 * "Years of scorn will leave you cold", "Mirror Mirror, Pt. II" (vol 3)
 * "The cold/Seems to grow in my soul, it's consuming me", "Path to Isolation" (vol 5)
 * "Frozen and stuck/Too lonely, it chills to the bone", "Path to Isolation" (vol 5)

"The Day I/We Have Waited For"


 * "This will be the day we've waited for", "This Will Be The Day" (vol 1)
 * "The day I've waited for is drawing near", "It's My Turn" (vol 3)

"It's Time To Die"
 * "Write your will; it's time to die.", "Caffeine" (vol 2)
 * "Kill for kill, eye for eye/Blood for blood, it's time to die", "One Thing" (vol 7)

Legends, fairy tales, etc.


 * "a fairy tale ... Legends scatter", "This Will Be The Day" (vol 1)
 * "This little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well", "Red like Roses Part II (duet version)" (vol 1)
 * "Legends and fairy tales scattered in time", "Divide" (vol 3)
 * "It used to feel like a fairy tale", "Let's Just Live" (vol 4)
 * "Back to the fairytale", "The Triumph" (vol 5)
 * "Legends have scattered", "All Things Must Die" (vol 5)
 * All of "Big Metal Shoe" (vol 6)
 * "Write yourself into a fairy tale/all your problems would just disappear", "Trust Love" (vol 7)

"Mirror"


 * "Mirror, mirror" (White trailer)
 * "Truth will rise/Revealed by mirrored eyes", "Sacrifice" (vol 2)
 * "Mirror Mirror, Pt. II" (vol 3)
 * "Mirrors will shatter", "When It Falls" (vol 3)
 * "Mirror, can you hear me?", "This Life Is Mine" (vol 4)
 * "there's a part of me that stares back from inside the mirror", "This Life Is Mine" (vol 4)
 * "I'm shattering the mirror", "This Life Is Mine" (vol 4)
 * "Mirror mirror, now we're done", "This Life Is Mine" (vol 4)
 * "Looking in the mirror/I see someone that I don't recognize", "Path to Isolation" (vol 5)
 * "Mirror, what's this thing I see? ... Mirror help me, who am I?", "Path to Isolation" (vol 5)
 * "Mirror mirror who will lose it all?", "Big Metal Shoe" (vol 6)

"Moon shattered/crumbled/gone"


 * "When the moon is gone", "I May Fall" (vol 1)
 * "Shattering the moon", "Die" (vol 2)
 * "Soon the moon is bathed in black", "When It Falls" (vol 3)
 * "And the moon should crumble", "Gold (Acoustic)" (vol 5)

"Roses"


 * "Red like Roses" (Red Trailer)
 * "Red like Roses Part II" (vol 1)
 * "Maybe red's like roses?", "When It Falls" (vol 3)
 * "Like the smell of a rose on a summer's day", "Gold (Acoustic)" (vol 5)
 * "A rose will grow", "Rising" (vol 6)

"Royal test"


 * "White is ... burdened by the royal test", "Red like Roses" (Red Trailer)
 * "Burdened by your royal test/I will not surrender", "This Life Is Mine" (vol 4)

Scattering - referencing Summer Rose's cenotaph ("Thus kindly I scatter...")


 * "But they're all scattered now", "Red like Roses Part II (duet version)" (vol 1)
 * "Legends scatter", "This Will Be The Day" (vol 1)
 * "Legends and fairy tales scattered in time", "Divide" (vol 3)
 * "Legends have scattered", "All Things Must Die" (vol 5)

"Shadows"


 * "Black the beast descends from shadows", "Red Like Roses" (Red Trailer)
 * "From Shadows" (Black trailer)
 * "You don't know what it's like to live in shadows", "Like Morning Follows Night" (vol 4)
 * "Rise up from shadows and into the light", "This Time" (vol 5)
 * "Thought that I could pull you from the shadows", "All That Matters" (vol 5)

"A Simple Soul"


 * "Victory is in a simple soul", "This Will Be The Day" (vol 1)
 * "But through a simple soul we lie complacent ", "Until The End" (vol 7)