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 with part-time lovers But if there's some emergency Have a male friend to ask for me So then she won't peek it's 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 (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) We are undercover passion on the run, yeah 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 (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers)
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 with part-time lovers But if there's some emergency Have a male friend to ask for me So then she won't peek it's 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 (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) We are undercover passion on the run, yeah 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 (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers) (Part-time lovers)
“Part‑Time Lover” foi lançado como o primeiro single do vigésimo álbum de estúdio de Stevie Wonder, *In Square Circle* (1985).
A canção chegou ao topo simultaneamente nas paradas Billboard Hot 100, R&B, Dance e Adult Contemporary, fazendo de Wonder o primeiro artista a ter um número‑um em quatro listas diferentes ao mesmo tempo.
No Reino Unido, a faixa alcançou a terceira posição na UK Singles Chart, impulsionada por uma apresentação de Wonder no programa *Top of the Pops* no final de 1985.
O registro inclui participações de Luther Vandross nos ad‑libs e backing vocals, além de Syreeta Wright e Philip Bailey, do Earth, Wind & Fire.
Wonder recebeu uma indicação ao Grammy de 1986 na categoria Melhor Performance Vocal Masculina Pop por “Part‑Time Lover”.
Nas notas de encarte do conjunto *Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume 2 (1972‑1992)*, Wonder descreve a música como uma homenagem a “You Can’t Hurry Love” e “My World Is Empty Without You”, sucessos das Supremes, antigas companheiras da Motown.
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