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"
Night falls, silence takes a grip.
Guilt I retrieved, a burning will to die.
I need this to be over before I am bleeding dry.
Somewhere along the highway these tracks must end.
I pass a crowd on my way to the house on the hill.
Dead man with pitchfork arms tells me all that he knows.
Leave me here for the crows.
In the Fall she came back, and with her the birds.
Guilt I retrieved, a burning will to die.
I need this to be over before I am bleeding dry.
Somewhere along the highway these tracks must end.
I pass a crowd on my way to the house on the hill.
Dead man with pitchfork arms tells me all that he knows.
Leave me here for the crows.
In the Fall she came back, and with her the birds.
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What amazing lyrics. Let me take a crack at it. "Night falls, silence takes a grip." "night" and "silence" represent death. "Guilt I retrieved, a burning will to die." He is remorseful and depressed over something that he has done to the point of suicide. For example, "before I am bleeding dry" and "leave me here for the crows." Crows, of course are the symbol of death. "Somewhere along the highway these tracks must end." There has to be an end to a seemingly infinite existence. "...on my way to the house on the hill" could mean heading towards heaven, and the "crowd" -- the millions of lives that we pass by everyday, or the souls we ascend with on our way to the afterlife. "Dead man with pitchfork arms tells me all that he knows". A scarecrow (a guardian against death perhaps) could tell him how to escape the pain. OR, since scarecrows do not talk, telling him all that he knows could represent the irrelevance in people's words. "In the Fall she came back, and with her the birds." Now, here is where the lyrics alter. This has nothing to do with the previous lines, but it is the most important line (hence the title). The Fall season represents pre-death, old age, basically the decline of life; therefore, "she" could have arrived just before he killed himself. "She" is probably and ex-girlfriend or something to that effect. As for "the birds", I'm not sure. It is definitely the most mysterious line. The crows, possibly. If so, then she brings death (after Fall), meaning their relationship will bring grief.
I agree with all your analysis, the last line; with her the birds, I interpreted as you did with 'her' coming with 'the birds' representing life instead of death, as sailors saw birds as a sign of land and where there is land, there is life.. 'She' comes with life in a sense as she is saving him from death.