Lyric discussion by smoot 

What better way to send off your dead husband than by celebrating the moments when as a couple you lived the most?

And isn't that what Bill's saying, that helping your fellow man and giving to charity is great, but nothing compared to that amazingly close companionship?

I want this to be my wife. And then, almost as if he's crying out in a way that doesn't even fit into words, that Tweedy-like falsetto. Awesome.

"For the first time in your life" is the only thing that throws me. It says that either A) The whole song is a fantasy, or B) His wife's sexuality has always been reserved for her husband alone and now, as a eulogy, he wants her to tell the world. I'm going with B.

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