User blog comment:FinalWholockianGrrlGamer/Analysis: Red Like Roses Part II/@comment-3257939-20151021022019/@comment-24113789-20151022021637

"We know it's about Summer because the writers said so"? Do you even know what you're saying? The only other option is to release a spoiler. Writers lie. A lot. Some lie less often than others. But when faced with a spoiler question, you have three choices: tell the truth, which is clearly not a viable choice; say nothing, which is sometimes a spoiler in and of itself (by letting on that there's a secret to be kept); or make something up. I don't really take anything seriously that wasn't said within the actual story or at least WoR; although, honestly, sometimes the characters lie, too.

It's also entirely possible this song is about both the past and the future. Ruby's yet-undeveloped abandonment complex comes out in full force after the death of Yang.