Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-152.20.171.58-20170108042440/@comment-4010415-20170108043045

Yes, it is. The RWBY crew said, during a livestream, that Red Like Roses Part 2 was written because fans were disappointed that the first Red Like Roses barely said anything about Ruby. Jeff Williams, who writes the RWBY songs, said that it's about Ruby and Summer. Red Like Roses is Ruby's thing. Etc and so forth.

Apparently, Yang calling Ruby a toddler may have been exaggeration.

Yes, Yang said that Ruby was torn up. The part about not understanding what was going on is kinda reflected in the song's lyrics with the fact that she doesn't seem to comprehend that, just because Summer promised she would come back home, that doesn't make her immune to death. That, and the lyrics said "when they told me you were gone", so the adults probably just told her that Summer wasn't coming back and tried to explain why, but she didn't get it. After all, Summer apparently promised she'd come back.

"How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?" - Not about Raven. About Summer leaving for a mission and not coming back. She may have promised Ruby she'd be back later, and then when she didn't come back and the adults told Ruby she was never coming back, it felt like a betrayal and a broken promise to her.

I take it as basically Ruby reflecting on how she felt at the time.