Lyric discussion by PatrickToronto 

Cover art for She Floated Away lyrics by Hüsker Dü

I never thought of it as being about the girl dying, although that is one interpretation (turning into a ghost). But any interpretation has to include the third verse which is more general and isn't as odviously about the girl or her family.

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It seems too cheerful to be about death.