Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton In 1992, singer, musician and songwriter Erik Clapton released "Unplugged," a CD recorded during his MTV television special. This program was part of a series of programs performed by several artists, who played almost no electric instruments. His CD won the Grammy Awards for best album of the year, best male pop vocal, best rock song - Layla, and best male rock vocal and best song of the year - Tears in heaven. The song "Tears in heaven", the fourth track on this CD, was written for his son, who died just over a year earlier in a fall. When you read the text and pay attention to the words, you also feel the pain of his loss. Can you imagine how difficult this was for him? Have you ever lost a child, a younger brother or sister? If you read the text, you will understand what I'm trying to say. The text is very painful. For example, in the verse where he says "Time can break you down, time can bend your knees. Time can break your heart, ask for alms please", he is telling us that time can be hard on us if we don't let him get up after every fall, time can worsen our injuries. Even with all this suffering, there is beauty in her feelings towards the loss of her son. The beauty is that Eric Clapton is trying to show us that no matter how hard it is for us to lose a loved one, never turn your feelings into sad memories, remember the good things about the people we lost, keep them alive. through those memories. You can read it in the verse where he says, “Beyond the door there is peace, I am sure of it, and I know there will be no more tears in heaven.” The message he is trying to send us with this song is: No no matter how hard it is, turn your pain into a beautiful, award-winning song. Or in our cases, a memory that will be remembered as a turning point in all of our lives. TEARS IN HEAVENBY ERIC CLAPTON You would know my name