Tears in Heaven

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I know the background to the song and love it, but not 100% sure of this lyrics or their meaning. Hoping maybe a deeper muso can help or a site with breakdown (rather lyrics).

Am I right that the below is literal refers to time to see each other in Heaven?

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

This part though - also literal?

'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

And this?

Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart,
Have you begging please, begging please.
 
The song is all about Eric Clapton and his son who tragically died when he fell off a hotel balcony.
So it's about him meeting his son again in heaven, and if that would be possible since it was his duty as a father to protect his child, which he failed at.
You can Google the full details, but the amount of emotion in this song is on another level of pain.
 
Shake&Bake said:
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Classic me, hijacking a thread and making it even better.
 
When music was still music.RIP modern 'music'.
 
http://genius.com/8111526

By asking “would you know my name”, Clapton doesn’t simply ask “would you remember me”, but “would you know who i am even if i wasn’t the best father ? We didn’t get enough time, but would you know me ?”
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Clapton said of the song "There is a song that I’ve written for a movie, but in actual fact it was in the back of my head but it didn’t really have a reason for being until I was scoring this movie which I did a little while ago and then it sort of had a reason to be. And it is a little ambiguous because it could be taken to be about Conor but it also is meant to be part of the film.
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Further down the movie in question:

After isolating himself for a period, Clapton began working again, writing music for a movie about drug addiction called Rush
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Then Will Jennings goes into more detail about the song and its place in the movie:

"Eric and I were engaged to write a song for a movie called Rush. We wrote a song called 'Help Me Up' for the end of the movie... then Eric saw another place in the movie for a song and he said to me, 'I want to write a song about my boy.' Eric had the first verse of the song written, which, to me, is all the song, but he wanted me to write the rest of the verse lines and the release ('Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees...'), even though I told him that it was so personal he should write everything himself. He told me that he had admired the work I did with Steve Winwood and finally there was nothing else but to do as he requested, despite the sensitivity of the subject. This is a song so personal and so sad that it is unique in my experience of writing songs."
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Tears in Heaven
 
This song always brings a tear to my eye.

I remember my late father listening to it and explaining the meaning to it. Funnily enough it actually played on the radio whilst I was driving back from burying him.

Its funny how certain songs remind one of past events both good and bad times.
 
jeremydixon said:
This song always brings a tear to my eye.

I remember my late father listening to it and explaining the meaning to it. Funnily enough it actually played on the radio whilst I was driving back from burying him.

Its funny how certain songs remind one of past events both good and bad times.
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I also recall yer auld man being a fan of "Mike and yon Mechanics" , always platered posters up at the local Spar asvertising events with Live Music by Mike & The Mechanics..... Or a trip to Cape Town, with live music by "Mike ......
 
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