Part-time Lover
Fausto Papetti Lyrics

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
If you get home safely, call me and hang up in order to convey the message.

To let me know you made it home
Inform me that you have reached home, so that I can stop worrying.

Don't want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover
I am concerned about the well-being of my part-time lover, and do not want anything bad to happen to her.

If she isn't with me I'll blink the lights
If my lover is not around, I will use signals to communicate that tonight is our night for romance.

To let you know tonight's the night
I will use signals to communicate to my lover that tonight is the night for our romantic rendezvous.

For me and you my part-time lover
This night is meant for the two of us, my part-time lover.

We are undercover passion on the run
We are having a passionate affair that we want to keep hidden from the world.

Chasing love up against the sun
We are relentlessly pursuing our love even when it seems impossible.

We are strangers by day, lovers by night
During the day, we are strangers, but at night, we are lovers united by our passion.

Knowing it's so wrong, but feeling so right
Despite our affair being wrong, it feels so right and we can't resist the temptation.

If I'm with friends and we should meet
If I'm with my friends and we come across each other, you should pretend not to know me.

Just pass me by, don't even speak
When we are in a public setting, we should not acknowledge each other, to maintain our secrecy.

Know the word's "discreet" with part-time lovers
The most important element of our relationship is discretion, especially since we are only part-time lovers.

But if there's some emergency
If there is an emergency, and we need to meet up, use a male friend to contact me.

Have a male friend to ask for me
I have designated a male friend to be the go-between if we ever need to contact each other in an emergency.

So then she won't peep its really you my part-time lover
Using a male friend to contact me in an emergency is a way to maintain discretion, so that no one will suspect you to be my part-time lover.

I've got something that I must tell
I have something important to share with you.

Last night someone rang our doorbell
Last night, someone came to my house, but it wasn't you, my part-time lover.

And it was not you my part-time lover
When someone came to my house last night, it was not my part-time lover.

And then a man called our exchange
Someone called the telephone exchange, but didn't leave their name, making it difficult to determine who it was.

But didn't want to leave his name
The person who called the telephone exchange refused to leave their name, making it suspicious.

I guess that two can play the game
Given that I believe you are seeing someone else, it's only fair that I start seeing someone else as well.

Of part-time lovers
Both of us have our part-time lovers, and it seems like this game of seeing other people on the side is becoming a cycle.

You and me, part-time lovers
Our relationship is one of a part-time lover, and we have agreed to keep our liaison clandestine.

But, she and he, part-time lovers
It seems that both you and I have a partner outside of our relationship, and the cycle of part-time lovers continues.