The subject is the man's internal conflict over the woman leaving him. This is exemplified through the lyrics, "don't, don't you want me?/You know I don't believe you/When you say that you don't need me."
The man's perspective is that he created the woman's success and that she still needs him. He sings, "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you/I picked you out, I shook you up/And turned you around, turned you into someone new" and "Success has been so easy for you/But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now,/And I can put you back there too.".
The woman's perspective is that he had nothing to do with her success and that she doesn't need him to create a life for herself. She agrees that she wasn't always successful, but now she has the ability to be strong by herself. This is shown through the lyrics, "I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar,/That much is true./But even then I knew I'd find a much better place/Either with or without you" and "I think it's time I live my life on my own".
I sympathize with the woman. She's genuinely trying to move on from the past and create a life for herself, whereas the man is just reminding her of what he's done and trying to make the past a reason for not to leave. The man seems pompous and arrogant as well by saying that he has the ability to "put her back" into the life she used to live.
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