I mean, is he really still singing about girls for his sake? Or is it ours? This time, as ever, the song's full of beans, power pop with sublime harmonies, coupled with the slightly disconcerting pay-off line:

"There's nothing much that we can do
To save you from yourself"

Its not a new trick to meld the most upbeat of songs with the catchiest of lyrical soundbites whilst hiding a dark core, but its one of the cleverest.
The bandwagon of one of rock's biggest misanthropes trundles subversively on.