What I always loved about this song is the moral confusion the character in the song seems to feel. He knows what he's doing is wrong, he feels guilty, even asks to be forgiven for it, but at the same time he keeps the affair going. The promise of ending it carries throughout the song, but it's always some vague future proclamation: "But it's ending soon/Love won't last the afternoon." And he even explicitly blames the person he's cheating on for driving him to do it! A surprisingly complex little character study for a four minute song.
What I always loved about this song is the moral confusion the character in the song seems to feel. He knows what he's doing is wrong, he feels guilty, even asks to be forgiven for it, but at the same time he keeps the affair going. The promise of ending it carries throughout the song, but it's always some vague future proclamation: "But it's ending soon/Love won't last the afternoon." And he even explicitly blames the person he's cheating on for driving him to do it! A surprisingly complex little character study for a four minute song.