Pink Floyd: Eclipse Meaning

Eclipse Lyrics

All that you touch

and all that you see

All that you taste

All you feel.

and all that you love

and all that you hate

All you distrust

All you save.

and all that you give

and all that you deal

and all that...

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   Piman

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   Oct 24th 2010 !⃝

   An idea; "everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon" to me suggests that all that is in life carries the thought of death hovering in the background. Contemplating one's mortality may provide a rationale for how to live, but if unresolved can bring someone to question the point of it all, perhaps leading to severe depression or even insanity. A similar commentary happens in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes. The 'preacher' talks about a time for everything under heaven but describes it all as "vanity and striving after wind" when he realises that death will erase it all. Powerful song.
2. anonymous

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   Aug 2nd 2018 !⃝

   Basic Buddhist philosophy. Nothing one does is permanent . All that’s to come is eclipsed by the moon (only permanence is ground below and sky above)
3. anonymous

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   Mar 23rd 2016 !⃝

   This song echos back to the very first track (Breathe) of the album with the lines "All that you touch" / "All that you see", and also expands upon them...
   
   1. It sings of basic economy: "give/ deal/ buy/ beg, borrow, or steal"
   
   2. It also sings of other things people do in life (aside from economy), like all that you "love / hate / create / destroy" (referring to both people and material things).
   
   3. It not only sings of "concrete" actions (like creation and buying), but abstract acts like interaction: "everyone you meet"...
   
   4. The most abstract (I think) deals with time (which gets its own song on the album) where *this* song simply says "All that is now / All that is gone / All that is to come" ... this sings of people's capacity to think/discuss about past/present/future.
   
   If you put all of the above together, it sings of general human experience, and the song concludes with "Everything under the sun is tune" (there is some cosmic order to human life... even if we don't understand it all!)
   
   However (eventually), "the sun is eclipsed by the moon" meaning each of us will die (inevitably).
   
   Yeah, rather depressing if you look at it negatively (nothing you can do about it)... but that is life (and could you call it life if there is no death?)...
   
   Metaphysics aside, I choose to look on the positive side (reflect on the very first song, "Breathe")... cherish every moment of your life and make the most of it (because someday it will be gone).
4. gregory

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   Sep 24th 2013 !⃝

   Everything seems to be cause and effect, purposeful and complete. Order fills the universe. The artist sees another force at work though. Chaos seems to be thrown in at times on purpose, causing an unsettling effect on his mind.
   It touches upon great mysteries, yet it is unable to explain them.
5. anonymous

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   Feb 15th 2012 !⃝

   Earlier in the album, there was a song that said "All that you touch, and all that you see, is all your life will ever be." Well in this song its adding all the other parts of life, showing you how much your life will ever be.
6. Blacktull

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   Apr 7th 2010 !⃝

   When I listen to this it sounds like hes describing everything that is life. All that you touch, see, taste, feel, love, hate. It's about everything a person does/feels in life I would guess.
   
   I love this song!

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