User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Volume 3 Opening Review/@comment-25436196-20151016015510/@comment-25436196-20151016043136

True, that's a big possibility. I'm also looking at this from a different angle: in I May Fall, the idea is basically the same as Aragorn's speech in Return of the King: "SOMEDAY we'll lose, SOMEDAY we'll drop down and admit defeat, but it's not going to be here, and not today". It has a dark start, but it ends on a feeling of triumph, and the key word for it is "may": the heroes' defeat is just one out of many possible outcomes, there's still a chance of victory. Then you have this song, with the word "when": it implies that the heroes losing isn't just a posibility anymore, it's already been decided, and it's just a matter of time until it happens.

We all know RWBY is gonna have a happy ending, but I think there's a chance of at least one volume ending on a slightly bittersweet note. In that case, "I May Fall" would be refering to the series as a whole, while "When I Fall" refers to this volume specifically. Which means this could be the start of that darker scenario that IMF opens with