Lyrics/Muziek: Roger Waters
Zang: Roger Waters

Eclipse is het laatste nummer van dat album en besluit met de muzikale equivalent van een wegstervende hartslag. Daarmee is het muzikaal het spiegelbeeld van het openingsnummer Speak to Me, dat begint met een steeds luider wordende hartslag.

Aan het eind is op de achtergrond een fragment te horen van Ticket to Ride van The Beatles.

Roger “the Hat” hoor je ook nog zeggen: “There is no Dark Side of the Moon, really, matter of fact it’s all dark.”

Roger Waters legde later uit waar het nummer, de slotzin en eigenlijk het gehele album over gaat:
“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.”

In later tijd werd Eclipse gebruikt bij de ruimtereis in 2004 van de onbemande Opportunity (MER) naar Mars. Het betrof hier niet de Maan, maar Phobos, maan behorende bij die planeet. In 2012 was het te horen als afsluiting van de Olympische Zomerspelen van 2012.

Terug te vinden op:

Dark Side Of The Moon
Works
Shine On
Pulse
In The Flesh
A Foot In The Door

Songtekst:

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
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.

There is no dark side of the moon really.
Matter of fact it’s all dark.