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"
She told me don't let them in. You're a copy of a copy.
She told me don't come again. This is awful. This is all wrong.
Now I feel it coming back again. Slide down the walls, on the floor.
Oh, I'll pretend this isn't happening this time.
She told me, stop listening to the voices, and what they said.
She told me don't fall again. I am wretched, I am loathed.
She told me, don't kill the villains.
The pain is not escaping.
She told me, don't kill the villains.
Just let them feast on their own perfection.
She told me, don't kill the villains.
The pain is not escaping.
She told me you cannot stay.
But I'm stable. I'm okay.
I said it, we all regret it. Now this room is cold and spinning.
Give us cause to keep them breathing again this time.
She told me don't let them in.
You're a copy of a copy.
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I can't figure out who "she" is, possibly an atheist girlfriend? Anyway, "she" is saying "You're a copy of a copy" as in you're a drone. You're just another face in the crowd, and with all the stuff he says "She told me" I think it all points to her saying don't fight the evil, just go with it. Basically, she's telling him to neglect God and everything he hears, but go with everything else - society, temptations, etc, just let them enter his life and go with them.
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