While I do think you can read the song as being about a break-up, the more literal interpretation of the song is about death. It's alluded to earlier in the song, but the last chorus pretty much makes it plain 'closed eyes, unmoving lips' and 'cold hands and fingertips' while being 'stretched straight from feet to head'. My wife still hates it when it comes up on my playlist (it and 'River on Fire' by Adam Again'). Mike Roe said in the liner notes that it's 'perhaps the saddest song I've ever heard'. But the song is simply beautiful and, as mentioned, sad to the core.
While I do think you can read the song as being about a break-up, the more literal interpretation of the song is about death. It's alluded to earlier in the song, but the last chorus pretty much makes it plain 'closed eyes, unmoving lips' and 'cold hands and fingertips' while being 'stretched straight from feet to head'. My wife still hates it when it comes up on my playlist (it and 'River on Fire' by Adam Again'). Mike Roe said in the liner notes that it's 'perhaps the saddest song I've ever heard'. But the song is simply beautiful and, as mentioned, sad to the core.