I have a different take on this song as part of my theory that the whole album is about one issue, a relationship going wrong (see The Meeting Place for full theory).
I reckon this is about the period when things were going OK (the only song on the album that sounds optimistic) - but he was "more into it" than her.
Hence her love was 'standing next to (him)', emphasis on the fact it is next to him, rather than something that has been expressed or internalised. It is 'next to him' but not within him as it should be. This only really makes sense in the context of the whole album.
I have a different take on this song as part of my theory that the whole album is about one issue, a relationship going wrong (see The Meeting Place for full theory).
I reckon this is about the period when things were going OK (the only song on the album that sounds optimistic) - but he was "more into it" than her.
Hence her love was 'standing next to (him)', emphasis on the fact it is next to him, rather than something that has been expressed or internalised. It is 'next to him' but not within him as it should be. This only really makes sense in the context of the whole album.