Tears in heaven

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It’s a sad story: A housekeeper in Manhattan had the worse case: The son of the guitarist Eric Clapton, aged four: Conor, – he fell out off a skyscraper’s 53rd-story window of the rock star’s New York apartment. Trying to find a way out of this catastrophe Eric composed the lyrics and music TEARS IN HEAVEN: “… Would you know my name / If I saw you in heaven? // Would it be the same / If I saw you in heaven? …”

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P.S.: yes, there is a dissonance between the lyrics’ background – and performing this music down by the riverside on a sunny afternoon, happy families passing by …