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“Eclipse” is the tenth and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.

It is by Roger Waters, with harmonies by David Gilmour. After Waters left, Gilmour sang the lead when performing live.

As the climax of the album, “Eclipse” highlights simply that the summation of everything you are, as much as it matters to you, as hard as it is to get it all “in tune,” eventually it’s “eclipsed by the moon”—i.e. not really important at all.

“Eclipse” almost became the title track of this album. Nicholas Schaffner’s book explains that, while the band was writing DSotM in 1972, the group Medicine Head released an album by that title. As a result, Floyd was considering naming their album Eclipse, after this song. It wasn’t until the Medicine Head album flopped that the group took the original title back

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What did Pink Floyd say about "Eclipse"?
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In a 1987 interview with Karl Dallas in the book, Pink Floyd: Bricks in the Wall, the songwriter and bassist for this track, Roger Waters commented on the meaning behind the final two lines on the verse of “Eclipse.”

I don’t see it as a riddle. The album uses the sun and the moon as symbols; the light and the dark; the good and the bad; the life force as opposed to the death force. I think it’s a very simple statement saying that all the good things life can offer are there for us to grasp, but that the influence of some dark force in our natures prevents us from seizing them. The song addresses the listener and says that if you, the listener, are affected by that force, and if that force is a worry to you, well I feel exactly the same too. The line ‘I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon’ is me speaking to the listener, saying, ‘I know you have these bad feelings and impulses because I do too, and one of the ways I can make direct contact with you is to share with you the fact that I feel bad sometimes.

  1. 11.
    Bike
  2. 42.
    If
  3. 50.
    Seamus
  4. 51.
    Echoes
  5. 57.
    Mudmen
  6. 60.
    Stay
  7. 65.
    Time
  8. 67.
    Money
  9. 71.
    Eclipse
  10. 78.
    Dogs
  11. 80.
    Sheep
  12. 87.
    Mother
  13. 98.
    Vera
  14. 105.
    Stop
  15. 131.
    Sorrow
Credits
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Electric Guitar
Bass Guitar
Tape Operator
Mastering Engineer
Hammond Organ
Lead Vocals
Recorded At
EMI Recording Studios, St. John's Wood, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
Released on
March 1, 1973
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