User blog:PuffDragon/On the Red Rose lyrics

I've been listening to the music independent of the trailer and a thought struck me.

The pure singing is not always clear as to the punctuation, and differing punctuation alters the meaning:

'Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest' is pretty clear, but it does say 'red fills my dreams and brings me...', so it is something that haunts Ruby.

'White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test' - again we have something tormenting Weiss.

'Black the beast descends from shadows' - here is were the punctuation question hit me. Is it 'Black, the beast, descends from shadows' or is it 'Black, the beast descends from shadows'? In the latter case we would not have Blake being the beast, but an allusion to a beast descending from shadows - to pursue Blake?

In the latter interpretation we would have a common factor for all three, namely that they are all carrying an internal burden which torments them.

What do you think?