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"
A star falls down from the darkened sky
Where new worlds born and die
Kingdom Animalia watches its approaching glow
What it means is soon to be known
Beneath the lovely birch
Honeymakers build their nest in peace
On the Savannah, a lion licks a wounded gnu
To honor this moment, even the heavens cease
Giant spiders learn how to swim
With whales they form a united kin
Snakes say hello to the rats on the ground
In the meadows play merrily, the fox and the hound
Trilobite and Anymalocharis
The prey and the hunter
Survival of the fittest
Fall of man
Seadrops foam, all empty human skulls
Those on the shores of Atlantis
Darwin's resurrection is witnessed
By turtles he used to play with
Healed and happy, She oversees
The Mother
The tyrant's return to the sea
Where new worlds born and die
Kingdom Animalia watches its approaching glow
What it means is soon to be known
Beneath the lovely birch
Honeymakers build their nest in peace
On the Savannah, a lion licks a wounded gnu
To honor this moment, even the heavens cease
Giant spiders learn how to swim
With whales they form a united kin
Snakes say hello to the rats on the ground
In the meadows play merrily, the fox and the hound
Trilobite and Anymalocharis
The prey and the hunter
Survival of the fittest
Fall of man
Seadrops foam, all empty human skulls
Those on the shores of Atlantis
Darwin's resurrection is witnessed
By turtles he used to play with
Healed and happy, She oversees
The Mother
The tyrant's return to the sea
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Actually, I think the tyrant is the humankind.
"Healed and happy She oversees The Mother The tyrant's return to the sea"
Life evolved from the sea? Humans too, in the end. So mother nature'll be happy to see us returning to the sea &stop terrorizing everything.