Dear Mr. Clapton,
I have learned of your loss.
Tears in heaven,
It’s a beautiful song.
I know your bleeding
Won’t cease with my words.
They’re just a cool drink
To help you along.
Through Saturdays with no noise,
Baseballs and untouched toys. They leave an empty feeling in your soul.
He is in heaven’s care.
There are no tears up there, cuz,
Jesus loves children more than we will ever know.
He loves those children more than we will ever know.
Dear Mr. Clapton,
You are not without hope.
The door to heaven
lies beyond the grave
If you would only
believe as a child,
someday this pain
will be washed away.
Of, memories of holidays,
That small angelic face.
They leave an empty feeling in your soul.
CHORUS
Dear Mr. Clapton,
I have learned of your loss. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
dear-mr.-clapton : :Dear Mr. Clapton song sung by Dana Key. The album Dear Mr. Clapton was released on Jun (1996). Lyrics of Dear Mr. Clapton song Dear Mr. Clapton are written by Dana Key : : GENRE : Christian Song : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Eric Clapton composed “Tears in Heaven” after a particularly painful period in his life. During this very dark period, Clapton, within a seven-month span, lost a friend/peer, his own manager, two associates and his young son to death. Thus “Tears in Heaven” is meant to address those tragedies, specifically the loss of Conor, the singer’s four-year old son. And outside of that, the track is also intended to in some capacity fit into the general theme of the 1991 movie “Rush”, since it was created specifically to be featured on that project .
Lyrically the song is relatively-terse. And the best way to describe it is as the singer addressing someone in the afterlife, specifically “in heaven”. First, that would imply that the individual he is speaking to was indeed a righteous person, as in someone he deems would be received favorably into the hereafter. And basically, what Eric is asking is that if this individual he loved so much on the earthly plane would also remember him if they were to meet “in heaven”. So ultimately, the song does not read as if Mr. Clapton is also deceased and is interacting with this person. Rather this is a theoretical inquiry he is putting forth from the land of the living.
How does this song fit into “Rush”?
But as far as how exactly this song is supposed to fit into the movie “Rush”, that has not been definitely ascertained. And at the end of the day it doesn’t even really matter, as the song strongly contributed to the film itself being moderately successful. And in fact in the grand scheme of things, “Tears in Heaven” has actually outperformed the film itself.
“Tears in Heaven” is a Sorrowful Song
So conclusively, we say this is a mourning song. The singer is having an imaginary monologue with someone he loves who has died. And what is relayed throughout basically boils down to him missing this particular person.
Read More about ” Tears In Heaven ” : in my Post dated : January 13 , 2022 : : in this Site “Madhu Malti ” Notable is that Rolling Stone ranking this song has made was being named by the magazine (based on a readers’ poll) in 2013 as the ‘Saddest Song of All Time’ .Eric Clapton decided that he would stop performing “Tears in Heaven” in 2004. And why did he do this? According to him, he was forced to do so because that particular sorrowful chapter in his life had been successfully closed.M.J. Leger says:
September 30, 2021: : : : : : :: : : : : : : : : :
It is a terrible thing to lose a child, especially the Eric’s son died. But life goes on, and if you are to go on with it, you must heal, put tragedies in the past. You NEVER forget those you lost, but relieving trauma only increases stress in your own body and if allowed to continue, will cause cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the heart) and shorten YOUR life.
You will NEVER forget those who have left you, BUT, for your own sake, you must put aside the tragedy of losing them, and choose to remember the happy times, when they put a smile on your face, and go on living. It’s called survival! Not easy to forget a trauma, but much easier to remember all the happy times, if you will just train your mind to do that. It takes perseverance and control, but it’s how we get past ALL the sorry things in life and move on to better things. You MUST push on, or you won’t survive, and no one in their right mind wants to die but things can seem so overwhelming with sorrow, at times, you wonder if you can go on. That’s when you should seek, professional help, there ARE ways to help you get through the trauma and go on to happier times. If you find you cannot do it alone, please get psychological counseling, there are drugs that can help depression, and eager ears to hear you and advise you, and help you get through the rough times and go on living again.” 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹Clapton once said that he could get much of the healing from engaging with Music ; we can say further that he should have continued with the same . This site ” Madhu Malti ” was started with this particular intent too , emerging with the Advent of SARS Corona Viruse 2 COVID 19 Pandemic / Death Time . And with the waves up on waves of the pandemic , We have appealed for the safeguards to be constantly adopted in the new routines required to live with , especially when we are living in metro cities which ruined the city and its life . In that process , we have appreciably opted Such Poems and songs in English as well as Gujarati language reflective of the situations as well as the changes in the Seasons to get the concerns and attached feel of changes and thoughts of inspirations / motivations which in mind have Addressees : the viewers / families / loved ones being included in the timeline . All the series posted as : : “Odes , Sorrowful / mourning Sad Songs : Swan Songs Etc. કરુણ પ્રશસ્તિ , હંસ કાવ્યો , મરણના કાવ્યો , ઈત્યાદિ વિશેષે ઉપરોકત ઞીત : With a Song of relief : “Dear Mr Clapton” We Wish that All The Pain Will Be Washed away with the Better Time To Come : : : : Song information study thoughts Compiled by V Jayaraj : January 17 , 2022 : : Pune India : : પોષ સુદ ચતુર્દશી :પૂણે ઈન્ડિયા : : : : : : :
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