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"
Set the lines on fire
It?s what you do to me constantly
Burning with desire
It?s what you take from me patiently
So burn all your bridges and learn
That it?s the only way that your voice will be heard
Take me out tonight
It?s what you do to me constantly
What?s beyond the lines?
Why won?t you follow me gracefully?
So burn all your bridges and learn
That it?s the only way that your voice will be heard
Come on baby
Burn all your bridges and learn
That this could take a while
I remember all the times we talked
Every time you acted like a stranger
And all the times that we were left here
Have you ever been inside these walls?
Could you tell a killer from a savior?
And could you tell me how you got here?
Cause can?t you see
That we could be frozen here in time
And can?t you bend
And just pretend you didn?t start the fire
Stay,
My love [x4]
It?s what you do to me constantly
Burning with desire
It?s what you take from me patiently
So burn all your bridges and learn
That it?s the only way that your voice will be heard
Take me out tonight
It?s what you do to me constantly
What?s beyond the lines?
Why won?t you follow me gracefully?
So burn all your bridges and learn
That it?s the only way that your voice will be heard
Come on baby
Burn all your bridges and learn
That this could take a while
I remember all the times we talked
Every time you acted like a stranger
And all the times that we were left here
Have you ever been inside these walls?
Could you tell a killer from a savior?
And could you tell me how you got here?
Cause can?t you see
That we could be frozen here in time
And can?t you bend
And just pretend you didn?t start the fire
Stay,
My love [x4]
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i think it may be about a relationship that was just about the passion, "Burning with desire It’s what you take from me patiently"
and suddenly they realised that there was nothing behind it. "Every time you acted like a stranger",
and then she began cutting everyone off, and then trying to go back to them, "Burn all your bridges and learn That this could take a while"
and then he's blaming her for causing all of it, but denying it, "And just pretend you didn’t start the fire"
and they're both trying to work out if they're good for each other, "Could you tell a killer from a savior?"
idk. just my interpretation.