Your Cheating Heart, Part II: we turn the turntables on this one, another cheating song--almost. This one's from the woman's point of view; not from the woman who's cheating on her man, and not from the woman who's being cheated on, either. This one's unique in that its point of view is from the woman who wants the man to cheat on his woman with her. She wants the affair--up to a point. Then it gets complex.
Our protagonist sees that this man is dissatisfied with his woman, and she--the narrator--is perceptive enough to know that just by the way he's looking at her that he's not happy with his lovelife att home, that his wife isn't freaky like that--not like the way she is. The singer wants this affair to happen, but she only wants the man if he loves her, for she knows that though their relationship will be physically satisfying (at least to him), that it would tear up his family life, and--here's the revelation--this single woman who wants the affair--won't ultimately have him because she believes in the sanctity of marriage, the sacredness of somesticity. That type of duality doesn't often appear in pop songs, and that complexity isn't the only reason this song is here. The music is as sinuous as the narrator must be.
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