User blog comment:FinalWholockianGrrlGamer/Analysis: Red Like Roses Part II/@comment-76.236.94.72-20151022034109/@comment-27106917-20151023041145

"'Now without you I'm a soul forever haunted.' Totes the thoughts of a four year old, absolutely."

The song may be about a four year old's reaction to her mothers death, but that doesn't mean she wrote it. This line is merely a sophisticated way of summarizing the feeling of a four year old, not the express thoughts of said four year old.

As to your second point, you failed to acknowledge the lines that proceeded the ones you listed. The full stanza is: "Red like roses/ Fills my head with dreams and finds me/ Always closer/ To the emptiness and sadness/ That has come to take the place of you." The full stanza could mean that Ruby remembers Summer in her dreams, and remembers the pain of losing her mother. Just because you remember something doesn't mean that you wear your pain on your sleeve.