Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-203.14.52.141-20151216011808/@comment-24891101-20151216012636

The song is an impossible conversation. Nor does all that have to be thought, merely the feelings behind it; explaining feelings takes far longer than simply feeling them. And here's Jeff Williams mentioning that she'd dead. As to the line you quote, it's "waste your life in vain", spending it futilely as a Huntress, as presumably Summer's final mission went FUBAR even beyond her death, and she died for nothing.

Now, they could always bring her back, but for now, we have no reason to think she's not dead, and every reason to think so, especially since we're already doing the parent-missing-but-still-living song and dance with Raven, meaning another would be gratuitous.