Eclipse - Pink Floyd
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All that you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All that you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
Although it seems as though this record ends on a depressing note, Waters once commented on the song's meaning: "What you experience is what it is. The rather depressing ending, 'And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon,' is the idea that we all have the potential to be in harmony with whatever it is, to lead happy, meaningful and right lives." This goes back to what he says at the end of the above video: "But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist, you know, walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness." So I was reading some fan comments on the song, and I was brought back to O'Connor's description of the punk movement as a collective "scene." Here's an interesting interpretation:
I think Ashley from Moncton, Canada has a good idea there, but that doesn't creep me out, it's that sorta feeling I live for. My humble opinion: The 'Sun' is the collective unconscious of humanity, the way we're all connected. Though we're all different, we're all one. The 'Moon' is your conscious self, in this reality we've come so acustomed to living in. Everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. To me this means that everything (Waters lists a few of the more common things) is in harmony, and it's that 'everything is one' feeling you always hear about for people on acid, but the moon, your consciousness, blinds you from this realization, until you die, (which is when the 'dam' should burst, rather than too soon like it did for Syd, shown in Brain Damage stanza three) I think lunatics are people who can see past the 'moon' and at the sun. And down to the last line: There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark. This is true. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun. Well this is a simple thing. There isn't a specific side of the moon that is dark, because it's rotating and the light is constantly shifting across the face of the moon. If it weren't for the sun making it light, it'd all be dark (duh). But, we never see a certain side of the moon, it just so happens to rotate at the speed it revolves around earth, so the far side of the moon would be concidered the dark side. So in retrospect: Everything is in tune in the collective unconsciousness, but your individual consciousness dulls (or at the very most, blinds) you to the onesness of the universe...
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All that you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All that you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
Although it seems as though this record ends on a depressing note, Waters once commented on the song's meaning: "What you experience is what it is. The rather depressing ending, 'And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon,' is the idea that we all have the potential to be in harmony with whatever it is, to lead happy, meaningful and right lives." This goes back to what he says at the end of the above video: "But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist, you know, walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness." So I was reading some fan comments on the song, and I was brought back to O'Connor's description of the punk movement as a collective "scene." Here's an interesting interpretation:
I think Ashley from Moncton, Canada has a good idea there, but that doesn't creep me out, it's that sorta feeling I live for. My humble opinion: The 'Sun' is the collective unconscious of humanity, the way we're all connected. Though we're all different, we're all one. The 'Moon' is your conscious self, in this reality we've come so acustomed to living in. Everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon. To me this means that everything (Waters lists a few of the more common things) is in harmony, and it's that 'everything is one' feeling you always hear about for people on acid, but the moon, your consciousness, blinds you from this realization, until you die, (which is when the 'dam' should burst, rather than too soon like it did for Syd, shown in Brain Damage stanza three) I think lunatics are people who can see past the 'moon' and at the sun. And down to the last line: There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark. This is true. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun. Well this is a simple thing. There isn't a specific side of the moon that is dark, because it's rotating and the light is constantly shifting across the face of the moon. If it weren't for the sun making it light, it'd all be dark (duh). But, we never see a certain side of the moon, it just so happens to rotate at the speed it revolves around earth, so the far side of the moon would be concidered the dark side. So in retrospect: Everything is in tune in the collective unconsciousness, but your individual consciousness dulls (or at the very most, blinds) you to the onesness of the universe...
- Patrick, Buffalo, NY
Source: "Eclipse" song facts. http://www.songfacts.com/
I find myself nodding in agreement with Patrick. At the same time, however, I wonder if the song's message goes against the progressive rock movement, which stresses the individual.
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