It takes a war to remind us just how much fonder the heart can grow when it beats for an absent lover.

The Genie is at first confused by her communication with the absent lover.

The song is a ballad, in which the speaker asks an absent lover what has become of him.

I didn't think she was going to consider an armed Highlander an adequate substitute for her absent lover.

Taken from their 1985 album Blue, the song is a ballad about a girl waiting in vain for her absent lover to return.

Yet when it is combined with newsreels of soldiers, one suspects that the absent lover is a political partisan.

When Claire describes herself and Drew as "substitute people" she means that they are temporarily standing in for other, absent lovers.

Nor an absent lover,' he grated, 'so put yourself away.

The song is a ballad, with Cordier singing to an absent lover.

The absent lover (now possibly dead) is so overwhelmingly present that Adams begins to write about him in the present tense.