Discover the story of the song > Kate McCannon – Colter Wall

The protagonist is talking about a bird called a raven that taunts him from outside his prison window. He says that the raven sings to him and tells him that he is going to hell because he murdered a woman named Kate McCannon. He then tells the story of how he met Kate and fell in love with her, but one day he found her with another man and killed her because of it.