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"
The unsaid tone of weak despair fail to resonate
Frayed ends of our binding threads will disintegrate
By laws our physique state
Failure to communicate
None too sentient
Hear no, see no works its magic
Against all function
Ongoing choices the trials will end
Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left
Indecision/nonvision
Matters taken away
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile , weak
Soon the battle is over, lost to apathy
So overcome with pointless tears
To test pain receptors
Nothing matters ever here
Put up a non reaction
These eyes will never see, covered up from reality
The unknown world that you deny
No priority, cannot fail if you never start
How predictable
I want to know where did it end?
For madness to start
Always the sceptic never be part
Introvertive/nondescriptive it matters not
Frayed ends of our binding threads will disintegrate
By laws our physique state
Failure to communicate
None too sentient
Hear no, see no works its magic
Against all function
Ongoing choices the trials will end
Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left
Indecision/nonvision
Matters taken away
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile , weak
Soon the battle is over, lost to apathy
So overcome with pointless tears
To test pain receptors
Nothing matters ever here
Put up a non reaction
These eyes will never see, covered up from reality
The unknown world that you deny
No priority, cannot fail if you never start
How predictable
I want to know where did it end?
For madness to start
Always the sceptic never be part
Introvertive/nondescriptive it matters not
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Pretty obvious meaning on this song, at least for those that have experienced or witnessed what the song is about (which I would expect would be everyone but based on the comments that is not so). It is about using apathy as a coping mechanism for personal problems and for the world as a whole. This song helps me personally to overcome apathy but it is still hard... for me, disconnecting myself from everything is something like an addiction, I know that I could do greater things if I let myself but in the short-term it is easier to just be numb to everything. Another song about this type of thing is Disconnected by In Flames. The sad thing is I know people like me that give in to apathy are the ones that care enough about the world to make it a better place, but their reaction to disliking things is to ignore them rather than changing them.