Early OST thoughts: “Lost” and its many meanings
Just one mod having thoughts here, but I love the play on Lost they’ve been doing in recent songs.
All That Matters was already a duet that suggested both Ruby and Oz are lost to the other at different times, given the chorus is sung by both of them, but the new songs go much more in depth with using the word than we see in earlier seasons (and Given Oscar’s involvement and beginning agreement with Oz (as shown in their emotional and experience-wise alignment in both narrative, as well as The Sky is Falling and For Every Life) it falls much more to Ruby to be Lost than her boys).
In Treasure’s second verse we get a couple lines where Ruby goes:
“Lone and lost, I wander with no place to go
Just aimless till you reappear”
and on reappear they play the same bell chime melody we get when Ruby first meets Oz in vol 1, and again when she’s talking to Maria about not being able to see eye to eye with the boys in vol 6, in the episode called Dead End (which comes right before Lost, two episodes that are extremely connected to Ruby and Oscar reacting emotionally to learning about the Lost Fable (a story of Oz being led astray from the path of light)).
Which is also a scene where she’s surrounded by blue daisies - blue signifying loneliness, and daisies signifying eternal love.
So we can at that point be sure that Lost is a specific word applied to both Ruby, Oz, and Oscar, because without each other they are, indeed, Lost.
This is also made apparent by the fact that For Every Life and The Sky is Falling are both narrated by the boys and suggest an increasing desperation in returning to Ruby’s side, as they also promised in Until the End and countless other songs.
For Every Life, after all, is a list of all the things that’s been standing in their way since the dawn of time from properly being with her, with verse 1 being narrated by Oz about all their lifetimes and verse 2 being Oscar about this specific lifetime. As well as a pretty decent show of their focus narrowing back in to just Ruby.
Both songs are a pretty good indicator that whatever Oz was shown by the Crown of Choice is coming nearer as well. And as a result we get a pretty decent example of just how close they both are to losing patience with the whole separation.
“Our world is lost without a soul
We’re losing all control
Not getting closer
Every step is just another dose of torture”
Gets a lot more specific now as well, since Lost is specifically about Ruby when narrated by the boys, which means that here they’re beginning to show just how irritated they are with not being able to “provide the things their loved ones need” because they keep being thwarted and can’t get closer to her.
Not to mention the fact that here we get a very clean view of what their priorities actually are. Oz and Oscar are likeminded souls, and Oz has both stated before and shown on countless occasions (as has Oscar) that they don’t care about the world. They care about the person they love.
Hence why “Our world” doesn’t refer to Remnant.
It means Ruby is their Whole World.