Gordon Lightfoot - Bitter Green Lyrics Meaning

Bitter green is the song of a woman who only loves one man for all her life.
He has had to go to work, or war, he is a sailor, married to the sea, though he also loves her, his soulmate, who waits for him to come back to her. He finally comes, but she has died waiting for him, and he cries over her grave, his lost love.