It could be a normal breakup song but one line stands out and makes the song pull together as a story about opening up.
Just my opinion, but when he says "And God you were the one who told me not to be so English" It appears that his lover made him open up to her, and that he was initially hesitant, so now he knows he was right in the first place to have been slow, but now he's had his heartbroken when it wasn't necessary.
It could be a normal breakup song but one line stands out and makes the song pull together as a story about opening up. Just my opinion, but when he says "And God you were the one who told me not to be so English" It appears that his lover made him open up to her, and that he was initially hesitant, so now he knows he was right in the first place to have been slow, but now he's had his heartbroken when it wasn't necessary.