Song Meaning

“Eclipses” immediately plunges into a relationship's end, marked by a profound sense of blockage. The speaker feels overshadowed, literally “blacked out as the night” even “During the day.” It’s a vivid image of light being stolen, not by natural darkness, but by the presence—or absence—of another. The central tension lies in the futility of communication and connection. The speaker attempts to reach out “On the phone,” only to find a voice that “answers, but you are gone.” This paradox highlights a painful disconnect, where the act of reaching out only confirms the other person's emotional or physical departure. The speaker's efforts to engage, expressed as “I pull and you break,” meet with minimal impact from the other side, described as “barely a wake.” The lyrics masterfully employ striking imagery to convey unfulfilled desire and distorted reality. The other person's “love imitates” the speaker's “thirst, as unspoken as salt in the ocean”—a powerful metaphor for something abundant yet utterly unsatisfying. Later, the image of seeing “Light through pinholes” and trying to “In cardboard see the sun” while it's “Covered” perfectly captures the struggle to grasp a clear truth through makeshift, flawed means, suggesting a deliberate obfuscation or a painful inability to see things as they truly are. Ultimately, the song progresses from a general sense of loss to a sharper, more specific betrayal. The second chorus shifts from “I know that it's done” to the cutting realization, “I know where you've been / You on whose been you have been sleeping in.” This shift delivers a final, devastating blow, transforming the abstract pain of a breakup into the concrete sting of infidelity.