Sunday, August 22, 2010

Monday's Mourning Ministry - Tears in Heaven ~Eric Clapton



"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards. (Conor's mother and his nanny were in the apartment with him, but unbeknownst to any of them, the janitor had just opened a glass wall that was supposed to be permanently locked to air the apartment out. When Conor was playfully running from his nanny, he jumped on the window ledge, but fell through the opening to his death.)


This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the American adult contemporary chart in 1992.


~Wikipedia.org


(Words in parentheses are paraphrased from the words of Conor's mother, Lory Del Santos, Clapton's then-wife. See second article listed at bottom of post for her full story.)





Monday's Mourning Ministry


Tears in Heaven

~Eric Clapton



Would you know my name

If I saw you in heaven

Will it be the same

If I saw you in heaven

I must be strong, and carry on

Cause I know I don't belong

Here in heaven


Would you hold my hand

If I saw you in heaven

Would you help me stand

If I saw you in heaven

I'll find my way, through night and day

Cause I know I just can't stay

Here in heaven


Time can bring you down

Time can bend your knee

Time can break your heart

Have you begging please

Begging please


(instrumental)


Beyond the door

There's peace I'm sure.

And I know there'll be no more...

Tears in heaven


Would you know my name

If I saw you in heaven

Will it be the same

If I saw you in heaven

I must be strong, and carry on

Cause I know I don't belong

Here in heaven


Cause I know I don't belong

Here in heaven












http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton
http://www.eric-clapton.co.uk/interviewsandarticles/loryinterview.htm (Conor's mother's story)

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