This “A Look at the Lyrics” focuses on a new single, “Eclipse” crafted by our own Caleb Straus from Abilene, TX, featuring Felicia Patterson from Marble Falls, TX. The single, which is a nod to synthetic Gothic and pop, was released on December 4, 2021. This track is to appear on the unreleased Overnight Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and has very celestial and thought-provoking lyrics. One interesting fact is that the individual who inspired the song gave Straus the quotation at the end, and the quotation inspired the sequence of events leading to the song and the movie. Below are Straus’ and Pattersons’ insights on the single and the concept of the new movie, Overnight. Be sure to check out more on the project as well as other material from the artists!
Caleb Straus– “So “Eclipse” is the first single from the Overnight Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, also featuring among others, my band, EMZY ENZY, 9 Stitch Method, Seethe, MadClock, Ritual of Ether, Allen F. Turner, Sam Astaroth and Feast on the Fallen. I am writing and directing the film, and curating the soundtrack as well as providing the original score. The film deals with two star crossed lovers as they journey away from and back to each other over a period of 20 years, and come to a head at a mysterious, haunted, and malevolent building called The Overnight Hotel. The story is an allegory for an actual relationship in my life, and is in fact, the genesis of the very record label that’s putting the film and soundtrack out, Solunar Records. You’ll notice that sun and moon imagery pop up a lot in the music, and in the film. The label being called Solunar (Solar + Lunar) is not an accident. It’s all connected. You don’t have a lot of room to go into the whole story but in the coming weeks I’ll be appearing on BTMX, Build the Scene, and MadClock‘s podcast to explain more.”
Felicia Patterson– “I’ve never had a second thought when being asked by Caleb to collaborate on anything he’s put together. It was no different when he told me about the new song “Eclipse“. We discussed the overall feel of the song which he had described to me as lovers who do best together but shine separately just as strong. When we sat down to brainstorm the lyrics I’d be using, the visual of an hourglass stayed in my mind. Location isn’t always the blocker with people; sometimes time is. So, “I shattered the hourglass that kept us away” came to form. The sun signifies strength to me, and the moon holds mystery so they are the perfect representations of lovers who are legendary on their own, but when they come together… absolute magic. Or in our case, fire.”
Video created by Dead Dreamz
“Eclipse” by Caleb Straus feat. Felicia Patterson
First Verse
Caleb: I’m lost in our time
Now becomes then Then becomes here
Primed, ready for war
Something familiar
A voice that’s so clear
Called back, back to a time
When I was for you
And you were for me
This life, has thrown us around
And now once again
You’re all that I see
Hard to say I would’ve died that day
But that’s the truth, and now the truth’s no longer in the way,
I’m on a Ship wreck,
I don’t think I’ll make it and…
Hands, legs, lips commence to shakin’ and…
Five years ago, I was a vagrant
Pretending to be sacred But locked inside a hatred
The devil didn’t take me I guess he couldn’t fake it
My fate’s a handful
But I can’t escape it If I lost you tomorrow all over again
How lost would I be
But then I finally realize That I don’t need you
And you don’t need me
Chorus
Yeah maybe, but when we come together it’s fire (Caleb and Felicia – chorus, repeat “fire “)
Second Verse
Felicia: I have crossed lines
Trying to find
A balance this time
Slipped, and fought to my place
I shattered the hour glass that kept us away
The shards sent a reminder
The scars are forever
There’s all now and no never
Content, I’m here in my space In control of this place, my choice is your fate
Chorus
Caleb: Oh baby, and when we come together it’s fire Chorus: (Caleb and Felicia repeat “fire”)
Third Verse
Felicia: We Prevail,
Like a phoenix from ashes Covered raw spots, with patches
We walk on the sun
The moon calls to us sweetly
Promises us some peace
And waits for us to return
Caleb: It’s time I’m yours and you’re mine
And yet we are separate entities
Isolate, and powerful I don’t need you and you don’t need me
(Felicia recites quote from anonymous): “Sometimes, I think of the sun and moon as lovers who rarely meet,
Always chase, and almost always miss one another
But every once in a while, they do catch up, and they kiss, and the world stares on awe at their Eclipse”
Repeat Chorus, out…