Admittedly, my first thought was "oh, it's about a breakup". But the opening lyric, "You didn't wait for me to help you out / I would've stayed to clear those final doubts" implies that the -other- person was responsible for what happened. Why would the other person need help, if it was just a breakup? And the lyric, "I find myself thinking, 'God what have you done?'" isn't necessarily about the narrator himself...
I do believe this song is about loss - but it resonates more along the lines of what you'd say to someone who committed suicide. Someone you loved, and will never have in your life again, because you said too many things to push them away, didn't help them, even while thinking things like "There's more I could have done," but knowing it's too late. There's no hope in the song, because the person could never come back, so the only option is to "rewind".
Admittedly, my first thought was "oh, it's about a breakup". But the opening lyric, "You didn't wait for me to help you out / I would've stayed to clear those final doubts" implies that the -other- person was responsible for what happened. Why would the other person need help, if it was just a breakup? And the lyric, "I find myself thinking, 'God what have you done?'" isn't necessarily about the narrator himself...
I do believe this song is about loss - but it resonates more along the lines of what you'd say to someone who committed suicide. Someone you loved, and will never have in your life again, because you said too many things to push them away, didn't help them, even while thinking things like "There's more I could have done," but knowing it's too late. There's no hope in the song, because the person could never come back, so the only option is to "rewind".
That's the impression it left on me.