Exit Strategy of a Wrecking Ball

I remember Daniel saying this song is dedicated to his daughter ;)

The first two lines sum up the whole song and the whole situation and the rest of the song elaborates on it.

The daughter was in a relationship with a guy who was emotionally abusive. One with a martyr/underdog complex. Someone who wants to be consoled for his non-existing suffering. It's a kind of narcissism in which the guy drags everyone down with him so he feels better than the people around him do, usually by complaining about the significant other towards other people, causing a rift between the significant other and the people she knows. They usually use fear and terror in order to keep the significant other as far away from reality as possible. Causing rifts in old friendships to isolate and desolate them.

The singer, as a nice person, has always been nice to the guy and tries showing him the good sides of life, but the guy hates it because when people are nice to him, he can't be the underdog or a martyr and he can't get consolance from other people when he complains about 'what a jerk his father-in-law is'.

The second line is about the singer realising what a toxic relationship it is and he tries to get him out of their lives by what the guy hates the most: people being nice to him.

The rest of this song elaborates this:

This state of chaos suits you - shows that the guy loves wallowing in his own problems, elaborating on the 'martyr complex'

But now I've got a nation to crush you on my command - The singer has many people around him who know about the guy's lies and want him gone as well

I've come to erase you - I think this is clear now

I'm here to replace you - The singer is there for the emotional support that her daughter needs at the moment

This time words won't save you - This shows that the guy is a lying git, and that everybody now knows that everything he says are lies

This time no one fears you - shows that his reign of terror was through lies and that he isn't physically abusive (which is hardly ever the case for people with a martyr complex because, the moment they hit someone, it's undeniably the fault of the 'martyr')

And I can't wait to get you out of my mind - the moment the relation is over and they'll never see him again, everything will be good again.

I searched a world to cure you - The singer wanted to cure the guy from his melancholy

so now I wear the scars of your bitter disease - While searching for the 'cure', the singer discovered this faul part of humanity that the guy is part of. Something he rather didn't know (I'm not sure about this line, though. It could mean something completely different).

I'm rage and ruin before you and without a thought in my mind I'll make you come clean - Before he knew that the guy can't be helped, the singer once confronted the guy about his lies, but the guy believing his own lies, didn't admit he lied, making the singer, as the honest person he is, absolutely furious (I'm not sure about this line either, though)

You'll never see her again - the actual declaration of war towards that guy.

The martyr complex is a certain kind of narcissistic personality disorder. My father has it. He isolated my mother, was grumpy for the sake of being grumpy and he emotionally abused her so he felt better than her therefor he felt good. If I were to sing this song to my father, it would be spot on Except that the person 'bringing the starts to burn him', 'trying to turn him around with their beauty' and 'searching the world to cure him' was my mother.

(From Youtube)