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"
What you hold dear starts to disappear
You can tell what you trust by the things that you feared
You can look for me baby but baby I'll be long gone
I warned you
You white washed tunes
Free from the wrath
As all men do
You can look for me baby but baby I'll be long
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That I'm the fight that can only end in bones
You can say I show to go
Or that I only go to shows
You can give my regards to your house of cards
Your dead eye stars and your pharisee shards
You can look for me baby but baby I'll be long
You can tell what you trust by the things that you feared
You can look for me baby but baby I'll be long gone
I warned you
You white washed tunes
Free from the wrath
As all men do
You can look for me baby but baby I'll be long
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That I'm the fight that can only end in bones
You can say I show to go
Or that I only go to shows
You can give my regards to your house of cards
Your dead eye stars and your pharisee shards
You can look for me baby but baby I'll be long
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This is obviously about the pharisees. He references a lot of verses from the Bible. I don't like the casual way he represents God here, asuming that God is the one speaking. "You can look for me baby?"
I don't think that this is reference to God. I think this is the writer's statement of disgust with the false religious of today. I think he's proclaiming that he doesn't need false religion so he is staying goodbye to all that stuff.