User blog:ChishioKunrin/Volume 2 Ending Song Lyrics & Speculation

Lyrics
(My best guess at the lyrics.)

Close your eyes now, time for dreams

Death is never what it seems

Did the things you thought you should

All the things they said were good

All your faith in ancient ways

Leaves you trapped inside a maze

Take the lives of those you need

Sow the death and reap the seed

Reap the seed

Born an angel heaven sent

Falls from grace are never elegant

Stars will drop out of the sky

The moon will sadly watch the roses die

In vain; loss, no gain

But you're not taking me

You can't have my life

I'm not your sacrifice

You can try, but I'm free

And you won't come for me

I won't crawl

Most of all,

I won't fall for you

Cinder Fall
My initial reaction was that it could be about Cinder and her reasons for doing whatever it is she's doing. She broke away from the system, and now she's punishing it. For some reason, the roses... Roses? have to die. Either Cinder is saying she refuses to be a sacrifice, or Ruby is standing up to Cinder saying she won't be Cinder's sacrifice.

Summer Rose
As I typed up the lyrics, I started thinking about Summer. "I'm free" could mean either she was freed in death, or she faked her death and is now free from the system. "You won't come for me" kinda makes faking her death to free herself from the system make sense. Who would come for a dead woman?

But if she is alive, where is she? Well... it would be pretty interesting if Cinder isn't the big boss of this whole operation, wouldn't it? You get the gist of what I'm sayin'? *Nudge nudge* I'll admit, it would be awesome if it's canon.

Either way...
It's looking more and more like there's some secret about hunters' lives just being used like pawns and thrown away as sacrifices. Someone found out about it and is pissed. There's also something about roses dying, which makes things look a little worrisome for Ruby.

Whoever this song is about, they have a stance against the ancient ways, pretty much implying they find it to be horribly flawed or just plain horrible. Perhaps the villains' goal is to force change through war and open people's eyes with violence. The councils of the kingdoms are probably opposed to the kind of change that the villains want, even if that change might be good.

This would explain how Cinder and Roman got the White Fang to work them. Both parties want change and are willing to resort to violence to make it happen.