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"
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba
This little Bluebird came looking for you
I said that I hadn't seen you in quite some time
This little Bluebird, she came looking again
I said we weren't even friends she could have you
Don't you think it was hard?
I didn't even say that you died
But it wouldn't have been such a lie
'Cause then I started to cry
This little Bluebird sure won't give it a rest
She swears that you may be better than all the rest
I said no oh
You've got it all wrong
If he was something special, I wouldn't have this song
Don't you think it was hard?
I didn't even say that you died
But it wouldn't have been such a lie
'Cause then I started to cry
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart?
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
What if when she comes over I am in your arms?
Taking all I want from you again (Oh)
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba
Beating again ba ba ba ba
This little bluebird don't come 'round here anymore
So I went looking for her
And I found
You
Get back together when it's torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba
This little Bluebird came looking for you
I said that I hadn't seen you in quite some time
This little Bluebird, she came looking again
I said we weren't even friends she could have you
Don't you think it was hard?
I didn't even say that you died
But it wouldn't have been such a lie
'Cause then I started to cry
This little Bluebird sure won't give it a rest
She swears that you may be better than all the rest
I said no oh
You've got it all wrong
If he was something special, I wouldn't have this song
Don't you think it was hard?
I didn't even say that you died
But it wouldn't have been such a lie
'Cause then I started to cry
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart?
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
What if when she comes over I am in your arms?
Taking all I want from you again (Oh)
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba ba ba ba
Beating again ba ba ba ba
This little bluebird don't come 'round here anymore
So I went looking for her
And I found
You
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For me the bluebird is really another woman that is in love with guy the girl in the song used be with. And about the part when she says "I didn't even said that you died" I think what she means is that this is what she wanted to say, because she doesn't wants the guy to stay with the bluebird, probably because she is still broken hearted and would like him to suffer, and because part of her wanted to stay with him, even though he is not worth it. .
So basically, to me, the song is about that part when you don't want to get back with someone, because you know it won't work, but you still kind love him. And I think during most part of the song she could have gone back to him if she wanted, and that's why the bluebird is always around, to make sure that she is not with him. Also, this situation, of sometimes cogitating to get back with the guy, makes the girl in the song feel guilty, you can notice this in the part "What if when she comes over I am in your arms. Taking all I want from you again". And she feels specially guilty for having reassured the girl that they were over "And this little bluebird she came looking again. I said we weren't even friends. She could have you", even though she is not a 100% sure of it.
But in the end I think what that last part means is that the Bluebird got the guy and they switched places, 'cause know she was the one who had to look for the Bluebird, which means it is to late for her, if she decided to get the guy back.