Cinema Strange Dead Eyes Open Lyrics

Dead Eyes Open Lyrics

+++Dead Eyes Open, or,

How the Woman in the Attic Fled, Never to Return+++



Prelude

My eyes are arid and cold on a portrait's insides. 

I am time-hardened wax and I can see wide! 

Fungus and frost have fondled my frontside and I

- Did he wonder and wander in small ages? 

Did he forget that I died? 

He's older and ugly and a beautiful baby, he's retinal mist. 

Far away, far away, leaning and twisting, I moan and I list!



Middle

Not flying, not walking, porous, like curtains, 

I hang on the dampness of Spring! 

I've known my own scrapings for so many years, 

I know that something is coming! 

Not demon, not quickly, gradual breaking glass... 

My knees will go out from under me! 

I've borne my own weight for so many years, 

I know the ground is dissolving! 

Not under, not behind, not slow and torpid... 

I'm far-away attic frost, free and untangled!



Conclusion

Didn't he wonder? 

I shall surprise him! 

Did he forget? 

I shall remind him! 

Please hold my hand, beautiful, ugly man! 

I've come untangled, but we shall find frost again! 

Dizzy and turning, you never need walk! 

I shall carry you, hold you, early and blinded! 

My son is no burden, I'm ancient with sorrow strength!