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"
It's coming undone, this world that I made
I feel it descending now
The place that I run, or what I run from
The boundary begins to fade
Every word's a trap to your lies
Every life you try to save dies
You hold the truth like a knife
You couldn't leave it behind
You're my impostor
I'm a shadow lost deep inside
Now how does it feel, as you crawl away
The damage you left for me
I drink from your gaze, a new masquerade
I feel your disease growing
You need a villain to save
You left me here in my grave
You came and took it away
This innocence that I cannot replace
Tell me that you were never real
You need another soul to steal
You're my impostor
You tell me you were never really real
Impostor, my impostor
Impostor, impostor
Impostor!
Impostor!
Tell me that you were never real
You need another soul to steal
You're my impostor
You tell me you were never really real
I feel it descending now
The place that I run, or what I run from
The boundary begins to fade
Every word's a trap to your lies
Every life you try to save dies
You hold the truth like a knife
You couldn't leave it behind
You're my impostor
I'm a shadow lost deep inside
Now how does it feel, as you crawl away
The damage you left for me
I drink from your gaze, a new masquerade
I feel your disease growing
You need a villain to save
You left me here in my grave
You came and took it away
This innocence that I cannot replace
Tell me that you were never real
You need another soul to steal
You're my impostor
You tell me you were never really real
Impostor, my impostor
Impostor, impostor
Impostor!
Impostor!
Tell me that you were never real
You need another soul to steal
You're my impostor
You tell me you were never really real
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Sounds to me like this guy created a whole new self image to hide the parts of him that he cannot escape but is disgusted of. He's seeing his lies and new mask start to crumble and he's coming to grips with the truth he had tried to hide. Now he has to face it and it seems like an impossible task. He can't accept that this is really him, so he cannot solve the problem.