Calling this a "breakup song" might be reductive. My opinion isthat there's more inside these lyrics.
There is a common thought that a man, to have more success with women, should act more as the "bad guy". And this thought often come over after the end of a relationship where is she who cheated on him or treated him bad.
Well, the song is all about that. After a man has fallen in love with a woman, and she used him without any care for his feelings, he feels "crushed", "pulverized", "bereft". But in the aftermath, he becomes just like her, from now on he will use false words who "seems so alive" to "control and hypnotize" women and to be "on the outside the greatest guy". But this way he is just "dead inside" like the woman who left him "out in the cold".
Calling this a "breakup song" might be reductive. My opinion isthat there's more inside these lyrics. There is a common thought that a man, to have more success with women, should act more as the "bad guy". And this thought often come over after the end of a relationship where is she who cheated on him or treated him bad. Well, the song is all about that. After a man has fallen in love with a woman, and she used him without any care for his feelings, he feels "crushed", "pulverized", "bereft". But in the aftermath, he becomes just like her, from now on he will use false words who "seems so alive" to "control and hypnotize" women and to be "on the outside the greatest guy". But this way he is just "dead inside" like the woman who left him "out in the cold".