The speaker is harboring resentment for his wife due to her wanting "everything" in the divorce. The point of the song is that both his wife and himself have become petty, but the speaker is hypocritical and not self-aware, bringing attention to her petulance but never his own (take it from my cold dead hands).
The speaker is harboring resentment for his wife due to her wanting "everything" in the divorce. The point of the song is that both his wife and himself have become petty, but the speaker is hypocritical and not self-aware, bringing attention to her petulance but never his own (take it from my cold dead hands).