Weekly Song: Eclipse
Eclipse is the final song on The Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd. The album is a complete work of art. The songs go through the phases of life from the beginning (Breathe) to the end (Eclipse).
Starting at the end of life can put the actions you've taken in the past and the choices you are making today in the context. There's always a place for that.
Here is an interpretation of the song I found: All actions and apparent contradictions and conflicts in life are resolved and disappear at the point of death ('the sun is eclipsed by the moon': the night falls for your brain). Even time itself disappears ('all that is now, all that is gone, all that's to come'). At this point everything melts together and you find/realize/experience that 'everything under the sun is in tune' and that all struggles were constructs of your conscious brain.
So why Dark Side of the Moon this week?
I was reminded of this song and the theme from this award-winning short film called Two Strangers Meet Five Times. Yes, you can watch it for free right now, and I highly recommend that you do.
Eclipse by Pink Floyd
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 you buy, beg, borrow, or steal
And all you create and all you destroy
And all that you do and all that you say
And all that you eat and everyone you meet (Everyone you meet)
And all that you slight and everyone you fight
And all that is now and all that is gone
And all that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
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