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//Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same// //if I saw you in heaven? I must be strong and carry on 'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven...
 * The lyrics in "Tears in heaven":**

Would you hold my hand if I saw you in heaven? Would you help me stand if I saw you in heaven? I'll find my way through night and day 'Cause I know I just can't stay here in heaven...

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees Time can break your heart, have you begging please...begging please media type="youtube" key="7g2IlaDLVLo" height="344" width="425" align="right" Beyond the door there's peace I'm sure And I know there'll be no more tears in heaven...

Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would YOU be the same if I saw you in heaven? I must be strong and carry on 'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven...//

 Clapton wrote this with Will Jennings, who has written many famous songs from movies, including "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman and "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic. Clapton knew of Jennings from his work with Steve Winwood. He explains: //"Eric and I were engaged to write a song for a movie called Rush. We wrote a song called 'Help Me Up' for 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 do to 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." //  Jennings revised the lyrics as Clapton and his band worked on it in the studio. They had no idea it would be a huge hit. Says Jennings, "It was furthest through from my mind, really. I was so involved in the sensitivity of the subject, and I didn't even think about that. I'm passionate about all the songs I write, but it was just in another place entirely, another category." (Thanks to Will Jennings for speaking with us about this song. Read his full interview in the songwriter interviews.)

"T ears in Heaven " is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards. This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the The song also spent three weeks at on the U.S. American adult contemporary chart in 1992.