Behind the Songs: ECLIPSE: Love Letters

This new batch of songs that make up Eclipse were written more in the spirit of collaboration as a band than were the songs that made up our debut album. We’re proud of that and proud of this batch of songs. And we hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we like to play them.
 
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Love Letters (Johnson, Driml, Carhart)
Lead vocal: Scotty Zero
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Learn to trust what you cannot see
The Spirit wants to set you free
Come to the cross and you'll find harmony
Don't worry about where you stay
The changes happen every day
New ones come and the old ones pass away

Do you know what it's all about?
Fills you up and it empties you
Over and over until the truth comes out
Understand that love is true

You stay up from dusk til dawn
You hate the fuel that you're running on
And so afraid, yeah, you just pretend you're gone
So friend, come take my hand
I will lead you from this land
The time will pass and you will understand

Do you know what it's all about?
Fills you up and it empties you
Over and over until the truth comes out
Understand that love is true

You learn to live another way
And now you breathe a brand new day
You life grows stronger and addictions fade away

Now you know what it's all about
Fills you up and it empties you
Over and over until the truth comes out
Understand that love is true

La la la-la la la la.

Notes:
Scotty brought this one pretty much complete. My bassline is based on his guitar riff as well as the song’s melody. Both Biff and I do the chorus harmonies. Scotty was always on me to do some sort of a bass solo since he does guitar solos all the time and Biff has a drum solo in Jump Gig. So this is the song that I do sort of a bass interlude. Not sure I would call it a solo. On the recording, I used my Ibanez fretless bass, but live, I just play it on whichever bass I’m playing (typically, these days, my Fender Starcaster). According to Scott, the lyrics of this song are about overcoming addiction.