totally concur with sliponshoe except that, to me, the scenario feels less like a crush and more like ex-lovers crossing paths: "Where we could lay aside our past." the "past" is the relationship gone awry. there's too much baggage here for it to be a crush. as they see each other there's still an attraction there, but the narrator dares not get involved for fear of where it may lead again. the other person is hurt by being ignored, hence the last two lines. "I see a tear inside when you're turned away." the narrator won't acknowledge the other, and the narrator knows the other feels hurt by this. "Another wound that I'd take back" is comparing the pain the narrator brings the other right now by ignoring them with the hurt that the narrator feels they brought upon the other in their failed relationship. "but you'll remember me..." without exchanging any words, the narrator knows the other will always remember what they once had. sometimes saying nothing at all is saying everything.
totally concur with sliponshoe except that, to me, the scenario feels less like a crush and more like ex-lovers crossing paths: "Where we could lay aside our past." the "past" is the relationship gone awry. there's too much baggage here for it to be a crush. as they see each other there's still an attraction there, but the narrator dares not get involved for fear of where it may lead again. the other person is hurt by being ignored, hence the last two lines. "I see a tear inside when you're turned away." the narrator won't acknowledge the other, and the narrator knows the other feels hurt by this. "Another wound that I'd take back" is comparing the pain the narrator brings the other right now by ignoring them with the hurt that the narrator feels they brought upon the other in their failed relationship. "but you'll remember me..." without exchanging any words, the narrator knows the other will always remember what they once had. sometimes saying nothing at all is saying everything.