To me it's not satire at all. It's about a man who really doesn't care about the person he's with. JC does quite a few like that--"Till The Money Comes" is another. "Soft Rocked By Me" is the same kind of man playing the Nice Guy game, and made the male use of that ploy clearer to me than all the LJ posts I've seen on the subject.

I see these songs of his as a blisteringly accurate and angry attack on certain kinds of male, and as such they're not comfortable to listen to. Calling them satire, thinking of them as funny, allows one to distance oneself from the putative target, but the truth is that there but for constant vigilance and self-criticism goes every one of us who is cursed with two lumps and a sponge finger. It's too easy for us to forget to care, and that's what Coulton is telling us.