Overall, I think this song is about one person in a relationship trying to make the other feel bad for an indiscretion, probably for cheating on her. The singer's partner found evidence of him having an affair by going through the pockets of his clothes. He senses that she is now going to punish him by trying to make him feel guilty. The female's method for doing this is to say something hurtful in the form of a joke. A cutting comment, a smart alack response. She wants him to feel bad and for that so he will leave her.
"Change your mind!!" is either the singer's plea to his wife/girlfriend to let him off the hook, or her plea for him to stop seeing the other woman. Maybe both.
"She kissed the back of my hand and she smiled" is how the songwriter experiences his woman's anger. In his eyes, she is pretending to be nice while breaking up their relationship, but really acting that way in order to make him feel worse. His response is to say something that he later regrets, and feels even worse for saying it: "I will die with my foot in my mouth". And he does it in that same passive-aggressive manner of making a pointed, pain-inducing joke, just like she did earlier: "With the same cruel sense of humor that I came with".
However, the singer somehow feels like his wife/girlfriend might forgive him for his infidelity due to the fact that he did, in the end, take responsibility for his actions. He got guilty.
Overall, I think this song is about one person in a relationship trying to make the other feel bad for an indiscretion, probably for cheating on her. The singer's partner found evidence of him having an affair by going through the pockets of his clothes. He senses that she is now going to punish him by trying to make him feel guilty. The female's method for doing this is to say something hurtful in the form of a joke. A cutting comment, a smart alack response. She wants him to feel bad and for that so he will leave her.
"Change your mind!!" is either the singer's plea to his wife/girlfriend to let him off the hook, or her plea for him to stop seeing the other woman. Maybe both.
"She kissed the back of my hand and she smiled" is how the songwriter experiences his woman's anger. In his eyes, she is pretending to be nice while breaking up their relationship, but really acting that way in order to make him feel worse. His response is to say something that he later regrets, and feels even worse for saying it: "I will die with my foot in my mouth". And he does it in that same passive-aggressive manner of making a pointed, pain-inducing joke, just like she did earlier: "With the same cruel sense of humor that I came with".
However, the singer somehow feels like his wife/girlfriend might forgive him for his infidelity due to the fact that he did, in the end, take responsibility for his actions. He got guilty.