Superman (TV)
“I watch superman fly away”
Sets up the song's central conceit: the absent partner figured as Superman, flight as the marker of his departure. The speaker is the one who stays on the ground, watching the figure leave, the line cleanly stages the flight-as-abandonment shape that resurfaces across the catalogue whenever a partner's career or commitments make him unreachable.
“And I watch you fly around the world”
Turns the comic-book figure into the actual partner. The flying here is literal travel for work, but the analytical pull of the line is the speaker's position on the ground watching it happen, the posture the catalogue returns to whenever a partner's career or commitments outpace the speaker's reach.
“Right here wishing the flowers were from you, wishing the card was from you, wishing the call was from you”
Full analytical context awaits the Superman episode extraction.
“He puts papers in his briefcase and drives away”
Driving away to work as the absent partner's daily departure; the car carries him off each morning, the drive the leaving the speaker watches and waits out.
“And you smile and say, “How are you?”
His casual smile and easy greeting are enough to hold her devotion suspended.