{"id":18072,"date":"2025-12-31T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=18072"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:58:11","slug":"morning-song-eric-clapton-my-fathers-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2025\/12\/31\/morning-song-eric-clapton-my-fathers-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song #Eric Clapton #My Father’s Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

But, slowly, music started to come back in again. As he attempted to move forward from the incredible loss, he began to channel it into his work. Some songs came quickly, like \u2018Tears in Heaven\u2019. But the deeper he delved into the tragedy, the harder it became, leading to the most difficult songwriting process he\u2019s ever experienced<\/a> when he tried to make \u2018My Father\u2019s Eyes\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clapton never met his own father, and in the song, he draws a line of connection between the eyes of the man he never met, the ones he sees in the mirror, and then the memory of his young son. \u201cHow will I know him? \/ When I look in my father\u2019s eyes,\u201d he sings, seeming to reference the idea of meeting God in heaven but also recognising both his child and his father when he sees these eyes he knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018My Father\u2019s Eyes\u2019 was the hardest song to record on the album,\u201d Clapton said about the process of making Pilgrim<\/em>, the record where he confronts grief most viscerally. When he came to make the album and finally put down on tape these songs he\u2019d written in the wake of the loss, he found it incredibly hard as he explained, \u201cIt was one of the first songs, along with \u2018Circus\u2019, that I wrote after my son died. And it was the last one that I could let go of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted from: https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/song-eric-clapton-thought-was-never-good-enough\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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