I think the very first lines are someone talking to one of the people involved in the divorce, trying to cheer him/her up, but the song is in the voice of that person beginning with "rumors." The lines about the rumors interrupt the previous ones, like the person can't even think about being happier with all these rumors about his/her ex-spouse being in love again. I think saying that they are completely unsubstantiated is more hopeful than certain.
In the next verse, the person wants his/her ex to be sorry for all the pain this divorce has caused, making it sound like he/she was the one who wanted a divorce and not the narrator. The narrator is still in love and wants, at the very least, acknowledgement from his/her ex that mistakes were made.
I agree with fitzgerald that the house is metaphorical, but I think it's metaphorical to the narrator. I think he/she doesn't want to give up the house that he/she lived in with his/her (I really wish English had a gender-neutral pronoun. I know it's technically 'he,' but it really doesn't work.) spouse because it represents the life they shared. When he/she says that he/she doesn't believe in "you and your wrecking crew," I think it's a desperate, stubborn denial of what is happening. I think the wrecking crew is a metaphor for the lawyers, maybe, or other people involved in the divorce. He/she does not want to accept that what they had is done, but there's not really much he/she can do besides cling to the house, trying to pretend that everything will just go away.
And I also have no idea why she suddenly uses an accent in the final verse, but I don't think I'd like her half as well if I understood all the whys in her songs. Anyway, it's that accent that makes the final verse my favorite.
I think it's about divorce, also.
I think the very first lines are someone talking to one of the people involved in the divorce, trying to cheer him/her up, but the song is in the voice of that person beginning with "rumors." The lines about the rumors interrupt the previous ones, like the person can't even think about being happier with all these rumors about his/her ex-spouse being in love again. I think saying that they are completely unsubstantiated is more hopeful than certain.
In the next verse, the person wants his/her ex to be sorry for all the pain this divorce has caused, making it sound like he/she was the one who wanted a divorce and not the narrator. The narrator is still in love and wants, at the very least, acknowledgement from his/her ex that mistakes were made.
I agree with fitzgerald that the house is metaphorical, but I think it's metaphorical to the narrator. I think he/she doesn't want to give up the house that he/she lived in with his/her (I really wish English had a gender-neutral pronoun. I know it's technically 'he,' but it really doesn't work.) spouse because it represents the life they shared. When he/she says that he/she doesn't believe in "you and your wrecking crew," I think it's a desperate, stubborn denial of what is happening. I think the wrecking crew is a metaphor for the lawyers, maybe, or other people involved in the divorce. He/she does not want to accept that what they had is done, but there's not really much he/she can do besides cling to the house, trying to pretend that everything will just go away.
And I also have no idea why she suddenly uses an accent in the final verse, but I don't think I'd like her half as well if I understood all the whys in her songs. Anyway, it's that accent that makes the final verse my favorite.