The second I heard this song I was hit by an interpretation that hasn't left me yet: the singer has killed herself and is looking back at the Earth from beyond the grave. She doesn't seem to be in any particular afterlife (heavon or hell, enlightenment... others... I'm not an expert on religion) but simply a state of being after our current one.
The fact that she's "returned" to this place says to me that her spirit was here before she was born, and has come back now she is dead.
The second I heard this song I was hit by an interpretation that hasn't left me yet: the singer has killed herself and is looking back at the Earth from beyond the grave. She doesn't seem to be in any particular afterlife (heavon or hell, enlightenment... others... I'm not an expert on religion) but simply a state of being after our current one.
The fact that she's "returned" to this place says to me that her spirit was here before she was born, and has come back now she is dead.