When I’m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I’m near.

The couplet plays as a witty confession of romantic inconstancy: desire is shown to be opportunistic, attaching itself to whoever is present when the “true” beloved is absent. Its humor depends on the neat reversal between “the girl I love” (idealized, possibly distant) and “the girl I’m near” (immediate, available), suggesting how proximity can override principle. Read more broadly, it satirizes the gap between professed devotion and actual behavior, and it captures a modern, urbane sensibility often found in popular song lyrics—where love is treated less as a solemn vow than as a shifting, situational impulse.