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"
If I break down all that I am
A field of wires we'll see what it's worth to walk
To break the lines
Of alternate steel
If I turn around what matters the most in time
We're going nowhere
Don't tell me now
The days I've had
To fill it up but spill instead
Talk to remind
Days weeks and hours
All in time will be
Later on we'll try
Hollow peaks we've climbed
All these things I've seen
How it feels to be something on
That's how the days go
If I break down all that I am
A field of wires we'll see what it's worth to walk
To break the lines
Of alternate steel
If I turn around what matters the most
In time we're going nowhere
Don't tell me god
The dreams I've had
To fill it up but spill instead
Talk to remind
All in time will be
Later on we'll try
All we gave to fly
Hollow peaks we've climbed
All these things I've been
How it feels to be something on
A field of wires we'll see what it's worth to walk
To break the lines
Of alternate steel
If I turn around what matters the most in time
We're going nowhere
Don't tell me now
The days I've had
To fill it up but spill instead
Talk to remind
Days weeks and hours
All in time will be
Later on we'll try
Hollow peaks we've climbed
All these things I've seen
How it feels to be something on
That's how the days go
If I break down all that I am
A field of wires we'll see what it's worth to walk
To break the lines
Of alternate steel
If I turn around what matters the most
In time we're going nowhere
Don't tell me god
The dreams I've had
To fill it up but spill instead
Talk to remind
All in time will be
Later on we'll try
All we gave to fly
Hollow peaks we've climbed
All these things I've been
How it feels to be something on
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