Take This Waltz

I completely agree with AnsleyLC.

My interpretation is that the writer dated a singer and she died.

The ten pretty women (possibly part of her family), the shoulder where Death comes to cry, the lobby with nine hundred windows and the tree where the doves go to die are all in the chapel; the piece that was torn from the morning as it hangs in the Gallery of Frost is apparently a flower wreath.

He still wants her of course and the chair with a dead magazine could be a memory or as he is sitting in the funeral home. I believe the 'cave at the tip of the lily' is the entrance to where they put her to rest (mausoleum), and the hallways where love's never been, is its halls.

Not sure how "on a bed where the moon has been sweating" ties in, but in a cry filled with footsteps and sand, are people walking with the casket and crying.

With its very own breath of brandy and Death Dragging its tail in the sea (he's drowning in drink).

There's a concert hall in Vienna Where your mouth had a thousand reviews is the part that makes me think she was a singer. And it ties with the bar where the boys have stopped talking as they are all sad (blue).

Mostly though it is the next verse, the: “Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture with a garland of freshly cut tears?”, because this depicts him visiting her resting place and taking flowers.

Finally, the attic where children are playing, I think is heaven, where he must go to be with her soon and as another poster said, the sheep and the lilies are a reference to the Book of Solomon.