The reason for this wording is that this is what sounds best and what fits best with the music. He could have written 'with closed eyes' - it would have had the same meaning - but this order probably sounds better into the song. Adjectives can come after the noun in English for various reasons. In this case, you can think of the phrase 'with eyes closed' as being a shortened form of 'with eyes that are closed'. Does that help?

"With closed eyes" sound plain, straightforward, ordinary. A simple statement of simple fact. "With eyes closed" sounds unusual and calls attention to the phrase. It SEEMS to me that "with eyes closed" and "with eyes open" suggest a FIGURATIVE rather than a literal meaning. If I mean "he is ignoring problems ahead" I am more likely to say "he is going into this meeting with eyes closed" than "he is going into this meeting with closed eyes."

Closed can be an adjective, but in this case it is a past tense verb. It would have been more correct to say, "Living is easy with your eyes closed."

Hi carmem