Edited sentence: Eleanor Rigby is a lonely old woman whose life is made worse by her own job—having to clean churches after weddings so she is constantly reminded of her own loneliness.Father McKenzie is the lonely priest of a small parish; no one comes and hears his sermons, and the most he has to do is darning his socks in the night.Finally, Eleanor Rigby dies, and Father McKenzie presides over a funeral that no one attends.For all the hype generated by the song, "Eleanor Rigby" is quite simple.Like other McCartney songs (such as "Penny Lane"), it involves two characters whose lives are somehow intertwined