This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Leave me alone, it's nothing serious
I'll do it myself, it's got nothing to do with you
And there's nothing that you can do
You can see it and you can almost hear it too
You can almost taste it, it's nothing to do with you
And there's still nothing that you can do
So come in my cave, and I'll burn your hearts away
Come in my cave and I'll burn your hearts away
Please close your ears and try to look away
So you'll never hear a single word I say
And don't ever come my way
Leave me alone, it's nothing serious
I'll do it myself, it's got nothing to do with you
And there's still nothing that you can do
So come in my cave, and I'll burn your hearts away
Come in my cave, and arrest me for my mistakes
I'll do it myself, it's got nothing to do with you
And there's nothing that you can do
You can see it and you can almost hear it too
You can almost taste it, it's nothing to do with you
And there's still nothing that you can do
So come in my cave, and I'll burn your hearts away
Come in my cave and I'll burn your hearts away
Please close your ears and try to look away
So you'll never hear a single word I say
And don't ever come my way
Leave me alone, it's nothing serious
I'll do it myself, it's got nothing to do with you
And there's still nothing that you can do
So come in my cave, and I'll burn your hearts away
Come in my cave, and arrest me for my mistakes
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I always thought this song was about manic depression. Perhaps Matt was going through a rough phase in his life and felt he didn't need to be bothered by idiots who'll just piss him off even more.
The lines "please close your ears and try to look away" and "there's nothing you can do" perhaps suggest that the only way to deal with his anger is to let it all out verbally and perhaps physically too. Anyone who tries to 'come in his cave' (ie not mind their own business) will be on the receiving end of his nasty side ("I'll burn your heart away").
"Arrest me for my mistakes" = Sue me for being a little bit messed up. ;)