I always felt this song was a man in the hospital after a serious accident or discovering a serious illness. He is all alone with no one there to support him. The Dr. says he will be OK, but he is feeling lonely and reminiscing about his past lovers, how none of them worked out and about how now he is alone with no one who loves him to care for him. That his past girls are all from different locales suggests that this might be the same character as in Tom Traubert's Blues (this would be a prequel to that song).
I always felt this song was a man in the hospital after a serious accident or discovering a serious illness. He is all alone with no one there to support him. The Dr. says he will be OK, but he is feeling lonely and reminiscing about his past lovers, how none of them worked out and about how now he is alone with no one who loves him to care for him. That his past girls are all from different locales suggests that this might be the same character as in Tom Traubert's Blues (this would be a prequel to that song).