Do you think there are tears in Heaven?
I wonder if angels cry.
What would constitute sadness
up in the heavenly sky.
Looking down upon our world
with all its stress and strife,
might make the saints and angels grieve
over all the wasted life
Even our Heavenly Father
might shed a teardrop or two,
that we've ignored His commandment,
"Love one another, as I have loved you."
"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 out of a 53rd-story window in his mother's friend's New York City apartment, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident was visibly distraught for months afterwards. 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.
Clapton stopped playing this song in 2004, he explained: "I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs. I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them. They're kind of gone and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is different now. They probably just need a rest and maybe I'll introduce them for a much more detached point of view."
I like this song very much, it is one of the most beautifull ballads ever. There are less and less such songs being composed these days...too bad.
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