Heh...yah, he does sound like a wimp. There seem to be a lot of songs like that right now.
The radio station I like plays a *really* wide variety (pretty much anything from the Beatles forward to current artists), and once in a great while they play that one.
I think the point is that it’s a bad situation all around for him and well, might as well get right to the point. And him walking up to this girl in what I percieve to be a crowded room and she’s got a hostile expression on her face AND she’s with another guy and saying “Are you gonna be my girl” to her takes a lot of well...let’s just say courage. And the wimpy pathetic way it comes out is because he knows he probably doesn’t have a prayer. But you gotta admire his...courage.