The song's bascially about the ghost of an old woman who lives in her son's attic. It's also in the name of the song as well, "Dead Eyes Open, or, How the Women in the Attic Fled Never to Return" it's almost kind of beautiful in an eerie sense, her watching over her son; "He's older, he's ugly, he's a beautiful baby" and "Didn't he wonder? I shall surprise him! Did he forget? I shall remind him!"
The song's bascially about the ghost of an old woman who lives in her son's attic. It's also in the name of the song as well, "Dead Eyes Open, or, How the Women in the Attic Fled Never to Return" it's almost kind of beautiful in an eerie sense, her watching over her son; "He's older, he's ugly, he's a beautiful baby" and "Didn't he wonder? I shall surprise him! Did he forget? I shall remind him!"