Clinton; I have seen that lyric too and in my opinion the thought of this mysetrious woman dying, as opposed to her merely wandering off and never apearing again based on some obscure "sorrow" makes much more sense...but rarely does anyone sing it with the words "my dead love", maybe too eerie for some. I never thought of the corpse imagery you describe so, uh, eloquently, but instead of the man "seeing" her as a ghost on the astral plane in dreams...which is pretty much the realm of the dead, some believe, or at least a place where we may communicate with them...

You are welcome to the lyrics, just don't forget my royalty check...