I don't think this song has anything to do with the woman not wanting to settle down. This song is mainly about a woman's relationship with a very messed-up man. He treats her as a commodity, like chattel; he tells her how to dress and decorates her with rings and bows like she's a child.
The narrator of the song feels like a beast (or perhaps like a slave) on the auction block, being sold to the highest bidder who then has the right to take her home. At the conclusion, then, she's "cutting... off" those parts of herself that he colonized, in order to be rid of him entirely.
I don't think this song has anything to do with the woman not wanting to settle down. This song is mainly about a woman's relationship with a very messed-up man. He treats her as a commodity, like chattel; he tells her how to dress and decorates her with rings and bows like she's a child.
The narrator of the song feels like a beast (or perhaps like a slave) on the auction block, being sold to the highest bidder who then has the right to take her home. At the conclusion, then, she's "cutting... off" those parts of herself that he colonized, in order to be rid of him entirely.