A Total Eclipse of the Heart

I woke up this morning with 2 things on my mind, one was a thought, the other was a song. It was kind of weird because it is considered a non-religious song and I have never been much into words. I felt it was important though, so I decided to pursue it and find out what the words were. Who am I to question the tools God uses?


Before you go on, please read:
"A Warning - Straight From My Heart" if you haven't already.


Very simply, Jesus said, “Be ye perfect even AS my Father in heaven is perfect”. God wants us to be like Him! Linking this back to Adam and Eve in the garden, man was made in the image and likeness of God, perhaps we really were supposed to become AS Gods. The serpent did not lie to Eve, it told the truth; it just hid something from her and that is why it was called more subtil than any beast of the field.

Adam and Eve just got the cart before the horse, they got it out of order when they ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and tried to take a shortcut to be as God. They had not yet what we now call "growing up into Christ in all things" and therefore they were not prepared to handle the responsibility of knowing good and evil. Like a child that takes on too much responsibility, they did not yet have wisdom to deal with it maturely. Adam jumped the gun and "eclipsed his heart".

I wonder what Adam's emotions and thoughts were after the fall. Adam once had a special relationship with God. Adam had walked with God every day since the day he was created and we don’t know how long that was. He was the only man that probably actually SAW God and that relationship was GONE. Adam was closer to God than he was to his spouse, so the emotions of losing a spouse could not even compare. Adam had to live an additional 930 years with that loss. Genesis 5:5

It’s hard to imagine the heartache Adam must have felt to be cut off from the Creator of the Universe, the lover of his soul.

Today we are in the same situation. Mankind, being in a fallen state longs for something deep in their soul. The closest we can get to identifying this feeling is "an absence of love", if filled, something we instinctively know should satisfy. Our poor attempt at replacement is romantic love, but we are disappointed because we want it to fulfill us and be enduring like God's love. It isn't. Because of Adam's sin, God had to turn his back on a relationship that could have been. Adam knew God still loved him, and when he looked it in the face, had confidence that God still had a wonderful plan for mankind. 

The song, Total Eclipse of the Heart sung by Bonnie Tyler, seemed to be a perfect picture of what Adam’s emotions towards God might have been, and what the longing and hope of mankind is for this kind of relationship again. This song resonates to that God shaped hole inside all of us.


Total Eclipse of the Heart - Look at these words as Adam talking to God after the fall, like our hearts crying out to God today. Imagine yourself as Adam singing this to God and the emotions he must have had, a voice begging God for a second chance with the realization he earned this punishment. He lost that close relationship of walking with God in the cool of the evening.

Turn around. Every now and then I get a
little bit lonely and you're never coming around

Turn around. Every now and then I get a
little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears

Turn around, Every now and then I get a
little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by.

Turn around, Every now and then I get a
little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes. (The look of God's love to Adam and the confidence God still had a plan for mankind)

Turn around bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart. (Adam pleading with God to change His mind, but then realizing God would never have that same relationship with him again)
Turn around bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart.

Turn around, Every now and then I get a
little bit restless and I dream of something wild.

Turn around, Every now and then I get a
little bit helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms.

Turn around, Every now and then I get a
little bit angry and I know I've got to get out and cry.

Turn around, Every now and then I get a
little bit terrified but then I see the look in your eyes.

Turn around bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart.
Turn around bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart.


And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
[You can't get away from your shadow]

I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight


Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart


Turn around bright eyes
Turn around bright eyes

Turn around, every now and then I know
you'll never be the boy [God] you always wanted to be [to me]

Turn around, every now and then I know
you'll always be the only boy [One] who wanted me the way that I am
[We look at this now as "Just as I am without one plea"]

Turn around, every now and then I know
there's no one in the universe as magical and wondrous as you

Turn around, every now and then I know
there's nothing any better and there's nothing I just wouldn't do

Turn around bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turn around bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart


And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight

Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart

Once upon a time there was light in my life
but now there's only love in the dark


Nothing I can say…
A total eclipse of the heart

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