PART
TIME LOVER
STEVIE
WONDER
SONGWRITER:
STEVIE WONDER
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: SQUARE CIRCLE
LABEL: TAMLA
GENRE: R
& B
YEAR: 1985
"Part-Time Lover" is a single by
American R&B singer and
songwriter Stevie Wonder, from
his 1985 album In Square Circle. The
song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100,
R&B, dance, and adult contemporary charts, becoming Wonder's final number one hit to date. The song's
simultaneous chart successes made Wonder the first artist to score a number-one
hit on four diferente Billboard charts. The song was also released as a special 12"
version. Lyrically, it tells the story of a man who is cheating on his wife
with a mistress, only to find out in the end that his wife is cheating on him
as well.
"Part-Time Lover" also reached
number three on the UK Singles Chart thanks in large part to a performance by Wonder on Top of the Pops in late 1985.
The song featured R&B singer Luther Vandross singing the ad-libs and backing vocals, in addition to Syreeta Wright and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind
and Fire. Wonder earned a Grammy Award nomination
for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1986, for the song. Wonder is noted in the liner notes of the
4-CD set Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume 2 1972-1992 as
describing the music for the song as an ode to "You Can't
Hurry Love" and "My World Is
Empty Without You", both by the Supremes, former Motown labelmates of
Wonder.
Call up, ring once,
hang up the phone
To let me know you made it home
Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part-time lover
If she's with me I'll
blink the lights
To let you know tonight's the night
For me and you, my part-time lover
We are undercover
passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right
If I'm with friends
and we should meet
Just pass me by, don't even speak
Know the word's discreet when part-time lovers
But if there's some
emergency
Have a male friend to ask for me
So then she won't peek its really you, my part-time lover
We are undercover
passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right
We are undercover
passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right
I've got something
that I must tell
Last night someone rang our doorbell
And it was not you, my part-time lover
And then a man called our Exchange
But didn't want to leave his name
I guess that two can play the game
Of part-time lovers
You and me, part-time
lovers
But, she and he, part-time lovers.
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