DSMP as Oh Hellos Song Lyrics
My opinions on which set of lyrics from Oh Hello’s songs match certain DSMP characters
I tried my best to get them all but let me know if I’ve forgotten/missed someone
Characters who are no longer around/didn’t do lore aren’t included. Also super recent lore is being ignored because I cant keep changing this every time someone decides to flip their character motivations dammit
(Im not including variations of a single character unless its a ghost btw. That means for example characters such as lmanburg Wilbur and revivedbur (two versions of one person) are gonna fall under the broad category of ‘Wilbur’.)
Some of them will have explanations, some won’t. If you want me to explain my reasoning maybe I’ll make another post. Maybe I’ll even make on for character relationships one day.
Idk I have crippling anxiety online so I won’t post very often
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Foolish: Constellations
“I can feel it on my tongue, brick and mortar,
thick as scripture drawing lines in the sand and lay in borders,
as tall as towers,
I babble on until my voice is gone.”
Slime: This Will End
“I will wait for this to end, the back and forth, the battery
for you at last to comprehend,
the kind of love of which I speak”
Niki: Thus Always To Tyrants
“Where I go will you still follow?
Will you leave your shaded hollow?
Will you greet the daylight looming?
Learn to love without consuming?”
Fundy: I was Wrong
“I was born at the dawn of our folly
I was young and stubborn to the bone,
as I took from the tree that was rotting
Ooh~
I took my chance and bit down deep”
Tommy: Theseus
“Whatever kingdom come, it probably won’t come quick,
no mighty clarion to announce it, no single use ark to discard in an instant
like Theseus’s ship, we’ll fix the busted bits,
Till its both nothing like and everything its always been”
(I know Tommy is likened to the hero Theseus because of Techno but I prefer to relate him to the conundrum of Theseus’ Ship instead- If you replace all the parts is it still the same ship? I think Tommy has been through a hell of a lot and probably struggles with the distance that has formed between early lmanburg Tommy and revived Tommy. Idk but I think its a much more fitting comparison than the actual hero. Honestly this whole song works and any part could match Tommy
I could talk about this song in relation to Tommy for ages so I’ll cut it off here lmao)
Jack: Where is your rider
“So bury me as it pleases you lover- at sea or deep within the catacombs
But these bones never rested while living so
How can they stand to languish in repose”
Boomer: Hieroglyphics
“Stamping your heels along with the drum
Praying the serpent's underneath one of 'em
Like there's some villain left to defeat
Instead of a dance with a rhythm and beat”
(I don’t actually know Boomer’s lore so I kinda made a guess on this one from what little I’ve seen/heard. Pls let me know if there are better options)
Philza: Eat You Alive
“Ive seen the true face of the things you call life
The song of the siren that holds your desire
Death she is cunning and clever as hell
And she’ll eat you alive”
Sam: Lapis Lazuli
“I don’t mean to speak so collectively
I know I don’t make it easy to even wanna hear it
What can I say, What can I say, What can I say
'Cause the more I recite it
The more you wanna fight it
The more my language is sounding fabricated”
(Sam is such a nuanced and interesting character who has such conflicting morals and priorities. His relationships are constantly being ruined by his strange reasoning and actions and I think this song conveys this quite well- He’s trying to explain himself but the more he talks, the worse it sounds)
Sapnap: Oh Sleeper
“I see the trail of shoulders I’ve climbed over but
by god I’ll bloody up my hands with everything I am
to cut away the mountains I’ve made and fill the dales below”
(Sapnap fought on Dream’s side in the first war and has conflicts with many on there server but Kinoko is his new start and he’s trying his best to repair old relationships and make up for past mistakes- This song is about overcoming your past to be better and I think it just works)
Techno: Oh Sleeper
“The tables in the Temple will be turned on their side,
and just as it scorches up the dunes
beneath the height of noon
the pillars of the empire will be burned in kind”
(Technoblade and christianity/christ connections go brrrr)
Wilbur: I Have Made Mistakes
“We have lived in fear, we have lived in fear and our fear has betrayed us,
we will overcome, we will overcome the apathy that has made us,
‘cause we are not alone, we are not alone in the dark with our demons
We have have made mistakes, we have made mistakes but we’ve learned from them”
Ghostbur: Pale White Horse
“It was a pale white horse, with a crooked smile
and I knew it was my time
It was the raging storm, of a foreign war
and a face I’d seen before”
Eret: Rio Grande
“May all our tinfoil idols
Lay crumpled on the ground
And our pre-fab Olympus
Divided by the thousand
Oh, maybe im naive for thinking,
That a mountain so stubborn can move
But if im a mountain moving
I think you can be too”
(Eret redemption arc woo)
Bad: Notos
“And every word you shouldn't say
Will come bubbling out of your throat
But you've got no one left to blame
For the things you lost to the winds of Notos”
(Bad’s lore is so cool and nuanced and AHHH I want to shake him violently for making me feel things. I think Bad places a lot of blame on people around him in an attempt to cope with his own bad decisions and actions (mind controlled or not)
Puffy: Notos
“Every inhale I take, swallows the ocean whole, and I am one
With the hurricane, tall as the tide that laps with a rabid tongue
With every exhale, I break you down with a fury, I lay the hills undone
Like a dog gone untamed, bellowing out a river from my lungs”
Ponk: Trees
“Climbing trees; haven't much since we were children
Shaking limbs tend to end up bent and broken
But heartache pales in comparison to love”
Ranboo: Soap
“I’ve heard
If I were tougher
Then maybe I'd make it alive
I got a tender side
I'll need a harder shell to survive
But if seeing is believing
I don't know I've seen a thing grow
Without an open coat
Not without a softness showing”
Purpled: Passerine
“And as I prune my feathers like leaves from a vine
I find that we have fewer and fewer in kind, but
My palms and fingers still reek of gasoline
From throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-Roman dream
Purifying the holy rock to melt the gilded seams”
Skeppy: On the Mountain Tall
“I know you want me to be afraid
I know you want me to love you
Still the wild wind blows
Up out the grave of an angry ghost
Firing bricks from broken canon and prose
To build a wall so high it reaches the heavens to the sky”
George: Exeunt
“Now I am not the fool I was when I was younger,
Crocodile eyes I have seen how you hunger.
Fluttering your lashes like ashes and embers,
Warm and bright as fire devouring timber,
No, I cannot trust what you say when you’re grieving
So my love im sorry but still I am leaving”
Tubbo: Dear Wormwood
“When I was a child
I didn't hear a single word you said
The things I was afraid of
They were all confined beneath my bed
But the years have been long
And you have taught me well to hide away
The things that I believed in
You've taught me to call them all escapes
I know who you are now”
(go watch the Dear Wormwood Tubbo animatic by knp!!! its the best thing to ever happen to me)
Quackity: The Lament of Eustace Scrubb
“I know that I have gone astray
'Cause when I saw my reflection
It was a stranger beneath my face
It was a stranger beneath my face
But I'll come around
I’ll come around
Someday”
Dream: Hello my Old Heart
“Hello, my old heart
How have you been?
How is it being locked away?
Don't you worry, in there you're safe
And it's true, you'll never beat
But you'll never break”
(im not a big fan of c!dream but I know a nuanced character when I see one dammit and I refuse to reduce c!dream to a simple evil dude. Mans has some strange fucked reasonings behind his actions and its so interesting to see it play out)
Karl: In Memoriam
“It's been a long road, losing all I've owned
And you don't know what you've got until you're gone
And it's a nasty habit, spending all you have, but
If you're doing all the leaving, then it's never your love lost”
Schlatt: Wishing Well
“For my soul, he made an offer
And to the dust again I fell
And oh, that devil's got a hold on me now
Because there wasn't any water in the wishing well”
(not a c!schlatt apologist or trying to find excuses for him, just thought the song was neat in relation to both his status as this big, evil, power hungry president and as someone struggling with substance abuse)
Hannah: Rose
“What's true is like a sickle
It'll cut you to the middle
Your rose is without a thorn
But no, my mouth don't taste of metal
From the pot here to the kettle
I think we got a lot we gotta learn”
(one of the most on the nose song choices lmao. Not 100% on it but couldn’t thing of anything better)
Punz: Eurus
“As Fortuna sits idly by
I spin her wheel with all my might
Crushing my kin for warring-wage
Minted from the ivory of your tooth and eye”
Eryn: Torches
“I got a venom like a snake running out of my mouth
(running out of my mouth, running out of my mouth)
Its got you burning at the stake,
Innocent or not, you’re not a bet I care to take”
(other then his childhood friends, c!eryn strikes me as quite a paranoid, mistrusting character. He’s constantly over-prepared for pvp situations and it makes me wonder about the rest of his backstory..)
Connor: Torches
“And father ignorance will make brothers of us all
(brothers of us all, brothers of us all)
As he sets our torch aflame
Chasing down the flimsy spectres that we co-create”
(c!Conner doesn’t have much lore but he was involved with the prison break and has ties now to the syndicate so he gets a song)
Ant: Bitter water
“Well, I still taste you on my lips
Lovely bitter water
The terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue
And I know I shouldn't love you
I know I shouldn't love you
But I do”
Callahan: The Valley
“We were born in the shadow
Of the crimes of our fathers
Blood was our inheritance
No, we did not ask for this”
(callahans lore is so interesting ahhhh like what do you mean he has a history with XD?? What do you mean he’s Tina’s dog??? What do you mean he’s canonically been XD’s pet as well?? *shakes violently*)
Hbomb: Cold is the Night
“Steady is the hand that's come to terms
With the lessons it has had to learn
And I've seen the things that I must do”
MichaelMC: Zephyrus
“Whether by accident or fortune
You and I
We are matter
And it matters
I want to spin something out of nothing
Lead to gold
Spring from winter
Story from moted sky”
Tina: Zephyrus
“I wanna help mother up an orchard
From a seed
Up through sapling
Daughter phoenix, rise”
XD: Thus always to Tyrants
“Every tomb, every sea, spit the bones from your teeth
Let the ransomed be free as the revel meets the day
Let the valleys awake, let them rattle and shake
In the wind that remakes all that time has worn away
Aimsey: Thus always to Tyrants
“I will look for you as the sun rises higher
When the dry bones dance with the timbrel and lyre
There's a wind alive in the valley
It will fill your lungs, if you'll have it”
Seepeekay: Constellations
“Cause like constellations a million years away
Every good intention, every good intention
Is interpolation, a line we drew in the array
Looking for the faces
Looking for the shapes in the silence”
Ghostboo: Cold
“When the bitter creeps in
To bite you whole
A spectre unreflected, oh
it keeps you cold”