From the album ALWAYS LET YOU DOWN (feat. A Day To Remember)
This is a breakup song where the person doing the damage begs to be left. Most self-sabotage anthems are about helplessness, but this one is about knowing exactly how much harm you're causing and trying to force the other person to do what you can't. The narrator doesn't want forgiveness. He wants permission to stop pretending he'll change.
I don't need a reason / To drown in the deep end / I told you don't pull me out
He's already underwater and warning her away from the rescue. The self-destruction isn't accidental. It's a choice he's making clear from the first line, and he's telling her that helping him is a waste of effort.
I'm never gonna meet you right / In the middle
This is the thesis in six words. Relationships are about compromise, and he's flat-out saying he won't do it. Not that he can't, that he won't. The refusal is the point.
Cut ties, it's over / You're closer to closure / And I'll be a stranger now
He's coaching her through the breakup he can't initiate himself. The verb tense flips to future certainty because he's already decided how this ends. He's just waiting for her to catch up.
I know what it takes to break a good soul / I know one hundred ways to let go
The cruelest admission in the whole song. He's not just aware of the damage, he's cataloged it. One hundred ways means this isn't the first time, and she won't be the last person he does this to.
Some things just aren't meant to be / Life's too short to waste on me
The final plea dressed up as wisdom. He wants her to believe this is fate instead of a pattern of choices. The repetition of 'waste on me' echoes the chorus and seals his argument: he's positioned himself as the villain so thoroughly that staying makes her the fool.
The gut punch here is that he sounds like he cares while doing everything possible to make her leave. This isn't a breakup song. It's a manual for emotional offloading. He gets to feel like the martyr while she does all the actual leaving.