Sometimes a writing prompt catches me at just the right moment. That happened today — much like it did when Snow In December arrived. I hadn’t chosen anything for my daily writing yet, and then this idea just dropped into place.
The image of an eclipse felt like the perfect way of putting words to those heavy stretches of life, the ones that feel endless when you’re inside them. The trick of the dark is that it convinces you it will never pass. But of course, it does. The light always finds its way back.
This is just the first raw revision, so the lines and rhymes are still rough, and I haven’t settled on where the bridge will go yet. But I love sharing things in this state too; before the polish, before I know what will stay or be rewritten, because it shows how songs really begin: as a spark, as a thought that insists on being followed.
Maybe this one will change a lot. Maybe it won’t. But for now, here’s Eclipse, a song about how even the hardest things eventually pass.
Eclipse
Verse 1
You didn’t know you held your breath
Until someone told you «breathe»
The dark’s a trickster
Making you think
It’s never gonna leave
Chorus
Some things are lost
But just for a while
Like the moon blocking out
The sun from the sky
You’re not really broken
You’re not void of light
It’s not an abyss
It’s just an eclipse
Verse 2
If there’s a blood moon rising
You stay until it fades
Chorus
Some things are lost
But just for a while
Like the moon blocking out
The sun from the sky
You’re not really broken
You’re not void of light
It’s not an abyss
It’s just an eclipse
Bridge
It’s okay to be in the dark
It’s okay to wait it out
It’s okay to be scared of it
It’s okay to feel it all…
Chorus
Some things are lost
But just for a while
Like the moon blocking out
The sun from the sky
You’re not really broken
You’re not void of light
It’s not an abyss
It’s just an eclipse
Outro
Some things are lost
But just for a while
It’s just an eclipse