Platinum Blonde

OK, since it's my lyrics, I'll add what I think it means as well because I LOVE this song.

This song is about a woman who appears to be perfect on the outside (physically) and has someone attracted to them so much they are willing to drop anything and everything to be with her.

The song is presenting two definitions of the woman. The first of which is the one who wants her's definition, aka the perfect female specimen.

"Kick that brunette into a pond, replace her with a...platinum blonde"

• He wants the girl so badly he's willing to drop his current girl for her. To me, the pond represents the old dating addage that there are 'plenty of fish in the sea'. The 'sea' or 'pond' being the dating pool.

Through the song, he learns that the grass definitely is not greener on the other side of the fence.

"She walks past but you can't form a whistle, even her lips look artificial"

• Everything about the girl is fake/phony. She puts on whatever front she needs to in order to get what she wants. The guy is starting to realize that.

"You wanna follow her but you can't swallow Her act, it seems so superficial"

• Ditto.

In the end, the guy is the one who ends up getting dropped for the next guy (sucker) willing to fall victim to the girl's false charm.

"She seemed alive but she is just a cipher An imaginary postcard that just dissolved "

• He was so convinced that she was the perfect girl, it hurts that much more for him to realize she is most definitely not. What he saw was what she wanted him to see and how he sees the "real" her.

"Endless sunsets glow in the distance Painted by Picasso's assistants Perfect people travel in Volvos Into the sunsets into the distance"

• The Norman Rockwell version of a perfect World. This was his vision, which he apparently still has of the perfect life with the perfect girl. However, as previously mentioned, it is all an illusion that the girl's fake charm and his mind convincing himself that was the case. However, a Picasso painting is anything but clear and perfect, thus what he sees is violently skewed.

"You never seem to learn from the school of hard knocks Then she walks past and laughs at the pond You can't break a heart that doesn't respond"

• My favorite lines from the song. The guy does not learn that what he saw was fake (the easy way) and thus has to learn the hard way. The girl is now the one walking past "the pond", aka the dating pool and sees the guy as they are now finished. I think this means that he tried to extract revenge of some sort, but she never really loved him in the first place, and thus her heart cannot be broken because it doesn't respond to his love for her. She is laughing that he even attempted it. My guess is that he tried to leave her or threatened to when he saw through her fakeness and she was all for it since her cover was blown. He didn't really want to not be with her, he wanted to prove a point, however now he's back in the pond (single) and she's walking by laughing at his futile attempt to break her.