I agree with tigerlily. Also, at least to me, it seems like sometime she said that she didn’t want to be with him (thus his “time in exile”). Now they’re kind of on and off, but not together. He wonders if maybe she wanted him later, but he kept away although he wanted it too because he thought that was what she wanted. He’s stayed around, but now realizes that time is flying by, the past must stay in the past, and he has to move on, to get a life of his own.
I agree with tigerlily. Also, at least to me, it seems like sometime she said that she didn’t want to be with him (thus his “time in exile”). Now they’re kind of on and off, but not together. He wonders if maybe she wanted him later, but he kept away although he wanted it too because he thought that was what she wanted. He’s stayed around, but now realizes that time is flying by, the past must stay in the past, and he has to move on, to get a life of his own.