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"
Somebody cried the death of culture
Somebody spit in the little boy's face
Somebody said you robbed my homeland
Somebody got the wrong impression
So we cam across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking separate tongues
In the seath of culture
It was the death of culture
Somebody said you stole my language
Some people will say anything
Somebody say you robbed my heritage
Some people will believe anything
Somebody said you always spoke English
Somebody got the wrong impression
So we came across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking separate tongues
In the death of culture
It was the death of culture
It was the death of culture
Bhi machree
Ohin trasna na farraige
Bhi machree
Ohin trasna na farraige
So we came across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking separate tongues
In the death of culture
Somebody spit in the little boy's face
Somebody said you robbed my homeland
Somebody got the wrong impression
So we cam across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking separate tongues
In the seath of culture
It was the death of culture
Somebody said you stole my language
Some people will say anything
Somebody say you robbed my heritage
Some people will believe anything
Somebody said you always spoke English
Somebody got the wrong impression
So we came across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking separate tongues
In the death of culture
It was the death of culture
It was the death of culture
Bhi machree
Ohin trasna na farraige
Bhi machree
Ohin trasna na farraige
So we came across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking separate tongues
In the death of culture
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I agree with that interpretation. I wanted to post the translation of the non english text in the song:
My heart came, From across the sea. (Bhi machree Ohin trasna na farraige)