
The song—Tears in heaven
The time I first got touched with the song “Tears in Heaven” was when I was learning blues music in a silent night. Eric Clapton’s voice with mild sorrow suddenly covered and shocked every corner of my room and even cells of my body. In the song, it is not that important to talk about the difference between human life and heaven. Instead, the great love and family bonds between two worlds touched me much.
Before I understood the origin of composing, I was really curious about the writer’s specific experiences and thoughts. At the moment I was listening, I seemed to pass through the tunnel of time and deeply hugged with my lovers in heaven. However, when my lip slightly touched with heaven, I realized the helpless of years that rolling like a stream. Some people and some memories have not already been belonged to this world. Even though time comforts all the sad things, nothing can made people in the blues with tears dripping down more than this. Then I knew the reason why Clapton composed this song was because of the death his son and best friends in just a short time. From the song, I can clearly hear the tears dropping in his heart. “Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven.” Actually, the road to the heaven is never built. No matter what kind of emotion we use to feel, no matter how to make our brain pass through from reality to illusion when thinking, we can not still feel the lovers from another world. We can not pick up the warm and feeling again as it was in the past. Angels often take away our loves in a silent way, at that moment, our heaven becomes not that perfect ever.
However, even though quite a few brutal beats was on Clapton, he sings “I must be strong to carry on. Cause I know I don’t belong to the heaven.” As I am concerned, it is the high tide of this song. If the song is without his turning point, it will probably just be a sad poem. However, those words really showed his brave spirit and strong mind that he had conquered all the hardship and even the fear to life from himself, which also encouraged listeners a lot. In normal life, any bad things could happen, the significance is how to positively face and conquer them. No necessary to be much sentimental because life is going on. It is not just a song but a lesson to teach us how to live.
All in all, the song presented the writer’s whole emotion and thoughts just in some short words. Not only did the song express his missing and sorrow to his lovers, but he also showed his courage to face those things, which made the song touched me every time.