This looks to be the counterpart to the second track on the album, Matterhorn. In that song a women dies atop the famously difficult-to-scale mountain top in the Alps--"up high in a friendless wind / tears frozen upon descent." She was carrying a note in her jacket from the narrator of this song, "some apology about some mess." It's not depicted as a suicide, but she was apparently troubled ("something about her came untied") and restless. ("What's wrong with the safe and warm? What's wrong with a book and tea at night ?") Here, the man remembers his dead lover while doing mundane tasks.
This looks to be the counterpart to the second track on the album, Matterhorn. In that song a women dies atop the famously difficult-to-scale mountain top in the Alps--"up high in a friendless wind / tears frozen upon descent." She was carrying a note in her jacket from the narrator of this song, "some apology about some mess." It's not depicted as a suicide, but she was apparently troubled ("something about her came untied") and restless. ("What's wrong with the safe and warm? What's wrong with a book and tea at night ?") Here, the man remembers his dead lover while doing mundane tasks.