| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I've always thought of the whole album as one man's descent into insanity, over a period of months. Slowly, the world eats away at his mind: work (in Breathe through Time), materialistic wants (Money), societies interactions (Us and Them), until his final downward spiral into insanity (Brain Damage and Eclipse). As for the final song itself, I believe these are the last thoughts that go through his head (I have a strange thought of him going so mad that he commits suicide without even him knowing-i.e. drowning himself or something). The key, as many others have said, are the last two lines. My theory on it is: the sun represents the life we live, regular life that we think we see everyday, undistorted. But it is eclipsed by the moon (the flaws of man, the vices we all carry). As for the dark side of the moon: that represents insanity, which could be seen as possibly the ultimate flaw, or, in the main character's case, the culmination of all the vices. The final line "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact its all dark." implies that, one way or another, we are all insane through these flaws and that the term of insanity is much more broad than we imagine. Just my thoughts though. |
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