My Wife and My Dead Wife Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Quonset 

Cover art for My Wife and My Dead Wife lyrics by Robyn Hitchcock

I think they're the same person. He's just remembering the way his wife used to be.

No, he's clearly interacting two different women -- he gets their coffee mixed up. I guess you could say his wife stopped taking sugar in her coffee at some point, but why go to such trouble to make the song less creepy?