Part Time Lover - Stevie Wonder

Song: Part time Lover ( 1985)

Singer: Stevie Wonder

Part-Time Lover" is a single by American R&B singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder, from his 1985 album In Square Circle.

Personally it’s a special song as this was my first song played on our newly bought tape recorder in 1985.

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. Net net it’s a song of extra marital affairs or for that matter single persons cheating on their partners.

Decades later our very own Mr Chetan Bhagat may have got inspired by this song ( my personal view) and wrote Half girlfriend (Just a another name for part time lover). The genius writers need just a trigger in most cases.

 

In “Part-Time Lover”, Stevie takes on the role of an unfaithful romantic partner. And the titular character is a “lover”, though not his official one, whom he sees on a “part-time” basis. So we can safely say he is sneaking around with her. Thus if they happen to cross paths in the daytime, they’ll behave as though they don’t even know each other. But they have their own secret codes which they use to communicate and set up convenient times. And these convenient times are moments when the singer’s true partner is away, so they can hook up.

The twist emerges in the last verse where Stevie comes to realize that he’s not the only one who’s been living this type of lifestyle. Or otherwise stated, he analyzes clues pointing to the idea that his official lady also has a “part-time lover”. Dhoka pe Dhoka!!!

So the song concludes along the lines of him learning a lesson, as in “two can play the game”. Or another way of looking at the conclusive sentiment is as it being akin to ‘what goes around comes around’. So basically Stevie is falling victim to the same questionable practice that he was engaged in.

Blind since shortly after his birth, Stevie Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Blind.singer writer and musician net net a genius. He

Enjoy this super song and have a super day

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     Lyrics

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
To let me know you made it home
Don't want nothing to be wrong with 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