Time After Time

"Time After Time" almost didn't make the cut on Cyndi Lauper's debut album.

Written in the final days of the sessions, it became her only U.S. No. 1 hit — and the ballad most people get wrong. It reads like pure comfort, but Lauper built it out of a relationship that was already fraying.

Do you hear it as a love song or a breakup song?