Deer literally die with their eyes open. I think the significance of that incorporated into the title and chorus is that things are changing and the other person is acting like they are dead inside. They are saying 'drop it' in what seems to me an annoyed tone. It's saying that even though it was supposed to be simple, painless, "in shorthand", the whole thing was drawn out too much and left the narrator with "writer's cramp." The skeletons foreshadow what is going to happen while the narrator dreams of better things.
Deer literally die with their eyes open. I think the significance of that incorporated into the title and chorus is that things are changing and the other person is acting like they are dead inside. They are saying 'drop it' in what seems to me an annoyed tone. It's saying that even though it was supposed to be simple, painless, "in shorthand", the whole thing was drawn out too much and left the narrator with "writer's cramp." The skeletons foreshadow what is going to happen while the narrator dreams of better things.