This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
Shedding tears for affairs
I'm a funny little thing
I can tell you this for nothing
Affairs don't win
Can you handle one more dirty secret one more dirty night
Is it true what they say
Will it make us go blind
You had to drive
Look me in the eye
Whisper don't cry
I'll take an interest in Illustration
It should be a laugh
Your words are with me still
They whisper in the grass
Shedding tears for affairs
I'm a stupid little thing
I can tell you this for nothing
You won't win
You had to drive
(I didn't want to)
Look me in the eye
(I found it hard to)
Whisper don't cry
(I had to whisper don't cry)
So I cried
I'm a funny little thing
I can tell you this for nothing
Affairs don't win
Can you handle one more dirty secret one more dirty night
Is it true what they say
Will it make us go blind
You had to drive
Look me in the eye
Whisper don't cry
I'll take an interest in Illustration
It should be a laugh
Your words are with me still
They whisper in the grass
Shedding tears for affairs
I'm a stupid little thing
I can tell you this for nothing
You won't win
You had to drive
(I didn't want to)
Look me in the eye
(I found it hard to)
Whisper don't cry
(I had to whisper don't cry)
So I cried
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Here's my take:
What sticks out first is how she says "Affairs don't win" and "you won't win." It sounds like a competition, at first between tears and affairs, and then between her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her and herself.
In the first verse, she's pondering whether love makes people blind. She's upset about discovering the affair, but it doesn't make sense. He has wronged her, so he's not worth it, so what's she weeping about?
The chorus is her seeing right through all of his excuses. To her, there's no excuse for what he's done whatsoever. He clearly wanted to if he drove to his mistress' house; he didn't "find it hard to" if he managed to show no remorse up until she found out.
In the end, neither tears, affairs nor her ex- win. She cries in the short turn both as catharsis — no matter how certain you are that you were wronged, you're bound to get upset about the relationship ending — and also to spite him. He asks her not to cry for his sake, so she just goes ahead and cries. When this song's being written, it seems she's gotten over him and has "won."