Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.84.15.225-20150807131522/@comment-14909251-20150906225928

When it comes to RLR2, try to read between the lines. The song is framed as providing the perspectives of two people, Ruby and Summer. When the song says she died, it is coming from the singer providing Ruby's perspective. No one doubts that Ruby believes Summer to be dead. Yet, at no point does the singer representing Summer make any definitive statement about being dead.

Looking at where Jeff Williams explains the meaning of the song, he never definitively says Summer is dead either. In fact, his long elaboration does strike me as him dancing around the fact a bit. His only mention was something like the song being about how Ruby felt regarding her mother's death, which doesn't really confirm it as that is what the song is about regardless of whether her mother is actually dead.