It's about two lovers who broke up. He wants to rewind their relationship up to a point that it even doesn't exist anymore. This is shown in multiple lines in the verses like:
//We'll pose after every photograph
Has been removed from the negative
I turn from a friend
Of your friend
Unintroduced
Forget your name forevermore
We'll part as happy strangers
From a long friendship
That grew from such a love\
He wants this to happen, so it won't hurt him anymore (But I don't mind losing you this time). It seems that they aren't even friends anymore, they (or at least she) hate eachother.
In the chorus he explains, how this rewinding could be made possible:
<<I'll meet you coming backwards
Yes I'll meet you coming back
When the universe has expanded
Time will contract
You'll come back
And I'll meet you coming backwards
Next time>>
Everything will be rewinded when the universe stops to expand (sort of). There is a theory which describes what happens when the universe would stop expanding. Space will not expand anymore, but it will soon start retracting again and thus, contracting the time again so that it seems that the time goes backwards.
When this would happen, everything will rewind like he explained. It would look like she is coming back to him backwards.
This again shows us, that he still may has feelings for her, because he seems to enjoy the idea of her coming back.
But there is still a catch, he can't overcome yet (and probably won't):
<< But we move forwards
Into emptiness
Into the void
Into the universe>>
The universe is still expanding and thus also expanding the "space" between their love (in a metaphorical way).
It's about two lovers who broke up. He wants to rewind their relationship up to a point that it even doesn't exist anymore. This is shown in multiple lines in the verses like:
//We'll pose after every photograph Has been removed from the negative
I turn from a friend Of your friend Unintroduced Forget your name forevermore
We'll part as happy strangers From a long friendship That grew from such a love\
He wants this to happen, so it won't hurt him anymore (But I don't mind losing you this time). It seems that they aren't even friends anymore, they (or at least she) hate eachother.
In the chorus he explains, how this rewinding could be made possible:
<<I'll meet you coming backwards Yes I'll meet you coming back When the universe has expanded Time will contract You'll come back And I'll meet you coming backwards Next time>>
Everything will be rewinded when the universe stops to expand (sort of). There is a theory which describes what happens when the universe would stop expanding. Space will not expand anymore, but it will soon start retracting again and thus, contracting the time again so that it seems that the time goes backwards. When this would happen, everything will rewind like he explained. It would look like she is coming back to him backwards.
This again shows us, that he still may has feelings for her, because he seems to enjoy the idea of her coming back.
But there is still a catch, he can't overcome yet (and probably won't):
<< But we move forwards Into emptiness Into the void Into the universe>>
The universe is still expanding and thus also expanding the "space" between their love (in a metaphorical way).