Calculating Bimbo

i'd say it's about his ex who is now with another man. she however still turns to him whenever she gets lonely or when there's a crisis ("I get the midnight phone call/I'm your captain for the long haul"). the fact that she remains in his life in this way prevents him from moving on ("If someone else is near me/You scuttle up the pavement"). "It's no one that I care for, I pause for an effect" describes the girls he's trying to date, but they don't make very much of an impression on him compared to the calculating bimbo who selfishly won't let him move on. haha. good song!

The way I have inturpreted this song is a little different than the previous comments.

The "calculating bimbo" seems to choose her male counterparts in a more calculated way. She has always been a strategic, competitive woman (why she appears to be rich/successful now) but fails to realize how important love is over money, status, etc. She has chosen another man because he is more financially sound and, in her eyes, it makes sense to choose him over the man who is emotionally supportive.

i like this song, it has a nice melody but i don´t know what the lyric is about.

Wiki says:

Bimbo

In popular English, the term Bimbo tends to have two similar connotations. The first refers to a attractive woman with poor intelligence or education, while the second refers to a woman with low sexual inhibitions and who often acts in a promiscuous manner.

I feel like the song is about how the boy loves this one girl who doesn't realize that he loves her. Could be that they are suppose to be just friends and he's always been her "back-up" friend who she turns to when things go sour with her new lovers. He sings: "With lots of time A notebook full of the finest Creamy rich girl parchment pages Slowly filled with all your passing days Every sacred word Paints a picture"

(I feel like he is trying to express how he knows she has the time to be with him but she's too caught up in her past relationships and it's holding her back from what can be between her and him. She is so caught up in the past that every past she describes so vividly)

"Bigger were his muscles And farther go his dollars But when you are in trouble And when you are uptight I get the midnight phone call I'm your captain for the long haul "

(In this verse I feel like he is describing the girl's lovers general image description of what they are usually like. Sort of like meat-head guys who just use and abuse girls then move onto next ones. And when she is in need of some emotional support to make herself feel better she turns to him [the singe])

-So that's all I really get from this song.... and just the way he is singing it, slow mellow and melodramatic just adds onto his anguish about how things are between them. Love sucks when you're stuck in a rut.