She's ready to move on with a platonic relationship but he still has lots and lots of romantic feelings for her. He's not even close to ready for friendship only ("When I can look at you without crying...I'm going back inside and turning out those lights")
She's left and then re-appeared, I'm guessing incidentally in a social setting. As soon as he sees her again, the memories and pain, which were only right below the surface, come back again (...I hear your footsteps echoing in the hall....Here we stand again.)
She has distance in her that cuts him to the quick. He knows it will never be like before.
She's ready to move on with a platonic relationship but he still has lots and lots of romantic feelings for her. He's not even close to ready for friendship only ("When I can look at you without crying...I'm going back inside and turning out those lights")
She's left and then re-appeared, I'm guessing incidentally in a social setting. As soon as he sees her again, the memories and pain, which were only right below the surface, come back again (...I hear your footsteps echoing in the hall....Here we stand again.)
She has distance in her that cuts him to the quick. He knows it will never be like before.