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"
And it doesn't matter
How you feel now, anything at all
Seems to be your only way, so vicious
Heavenly apart
When your envy is on a piece of paper
Let me sweetly smile
You're devouring all the crumb
I'm leaving caught up in your lies
You're on any other side
Clawing up my eyes
I'm feeling your arms around me
On the other side
It's time to go
I'm hearing your voice
Without words
On the other side
But it doesn't matter
How I feel now, anything at all
Since I've left you with the wrong
Impression while I'm still the same
When I turn around and look
At my life, shadows in disguise
But I'm working on
An interruption of hypocrisy
You're an any other side
Clawing up my eyes
I'm feeling your arms around me
On the other side, it's time to go
I'm hearing your voice without words
On the other side
Any other side
How you feel now, anything at all
Seems to be your only way, so vicious
Heavenly apart
When your envy is on a piece of paper
Let me sweetly smile
You're devouring all the crumb
I'm leaving caught up in your lies
You're on any other side
Clawing up my eyes
I'm feeling your arms around me
On the other side
It's time to go
I'm hearing your voice
Without words
On the other side
But it doesn't matter
How I feel now, anything at all
Since I've left you with the wrong
Impression while I'm still the same
When I turn around and look
At my life, shadows in disguise
But I'm working on
An interruption of hypocrisy
You're an any other side
Clawing up my eyes
I'm feeling your arms around me
On the other side, it's time to go
I'm hearing your voice without words
On the other side
Any other side
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To break away from the same old crap people say, I think the song is based more on a story. I think the person the speaker is talking to commited a violent crime, possibly against them and was thrown in jail. Blinded by their feelings, they visit the criminal in jail.
"Clawing up my eyes" The line that makes my suspect the crime was against the speaker "I'm feeling your arms around me On the other side" On the other side may refer to a barrier in a jail cell. The criminal may be acting like he loves her. "It's time to go" The visit time is up "I'm hearing your voice without words On the other side" Still remembering the visit.
"And it doesn't matter how you feel now, anything at all" Possibly reffering to the crime, saying that no matter WHY he did it, he still gets the time "Seems to be your only way, so vicious" Expressing anger over the crime "Heavenly apart" Then she seems to forget about it
"but I'm working on an interruption of hypocrisy"
That's just a retarded line they threw in to sound fancy.