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"
So many people
Smile on their faces
Armful of presents
Going to places
There's a chill in the air
As I walk through the night
How I wish I could walk
Through the windows of time
Would I see happiness there
See your face everywhere
But the lights all go down
Over London town
There's a glow in my heart
Even though we're apart
‘Cause I know, yes, I know
It's just a matter of time
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
I sit by the fire
And try to remember
It won't be long ‘til
We're back together
But we're oceans apart
And nothing that I can do
Will speed the passing of time
Or bring me closer to you
And I keep thinking of you
And it keeps pulling me through
Like the songs that you sing
When you're lonely
But there's a glow in my heart
Even though we're apart
‘Cause I know, yes, I know
It's just a matter of time
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
And I keep thinking of you
And it keeps pulling me through
Like the songs that you sing
When you're lonely
But there's a glow in my heart
Even though we're apart
‘Cause I know, yes, I know
It's just a matter of time
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
Smile on their faces
Armful of presents
Going to places
There's a chill in the air
As I walk through the night
How I wish I could walk
Through the windows of time
Would I see happiness there
See your face everywhere
But the lights all go down
Over London town
There's a glow in my heart
Even though we're apart
‘Cause I know, yes, I know
It's just a matter of time
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
I sit by the fire
And try to remember
It won't be long ‘til
We're back together
But we're oceans apart
And nothing that I can do
Will speed the passing of time
Or bring me closer to you
And I keep thinking of you
And it keeps pulling me through
Like the songs that you sing
When you're lonely
But there's a glow in my heart
Even though we're apart
‘Cause I know, yes, I know
It's just a matter of time
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
And I keep thinking of you
And it keeps pulling me through
Like the songs that you sing
When you're lonely
But there's a glow in my heart
Even though we're apart
‘Cause I know, yes, I know
It's just a matter of time
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
I'm missing your love
Until you come back to me
I'm counting the hours
Until you return
There's a flame in my heart
And when you come back to me
Oh, how the fire will burn
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Maybe the lovers are geographically separated because one has gone away on holiday or business - in which case "oceans apart" might be literal.
Or maybe they are just on a break from each other, in which case the "oceans apart" is a metaphor for the emotional separation. He wants to get back together, but there's an overriding sense of needing to let the break run its course. I've felt this myself while torn apart from a special friend.