Cherry picks up on the SFCP right out of the gate and never once drops it. Truth be told, the whole thing's a bit boring. Whatever's going to happen after the wine has been poured has happened before, and it'll probably happen again once he returns, and he will return. There's none of the insistent urging that would suggest that the woman in question is being persuaded to succumb to Cherry's charms despite her better judgement. Cherry's playing the sensitive-boyfriend card here, begging for a romantic evening before he vanishes the next day (which makes the lyric an eerily accurate analogue to how the song would fare in the real world). But "Save Tonight" makes the transition to recognizing that dudes use the progression as well a reasonably smooth one.
Maybe if I'd picked up on an SFCP song by another male artist first - the Offspring, for instance - I'd've responded differently. So what'd I do in the face of a palpably male performer using a chord progression that I'd previously identified only with women? I shrugged and moved on. That honor went to Eagle Eye Cherry, who in 1998 managed to perfectly copy his sister Neneh's career by having one giant hit and then dropping off the face of the earth (or the charts, which might as well be the same thing in this business).
One of the problems with designating something the "Sensitive Female Chord Progression" (one of many, many problems) lies in what to do when you inevitably identify your first example of someone with a Y chromosome using it. Lyrical content: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (opposite perspective) chart prediction as romantic metaphor
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